Vulnerability in Prosody
CVE-2011-2205
Prosody before 0.8.1 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.021 (80.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 80.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Prosody — versions 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.3.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/ (Patch)
- hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4 (Patch)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884 (vdb-entry)
- hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d (Patch)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5 (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/44852 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1 (Patch)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6 (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125 (vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2011-2205?
- CVE-2011-2205 is a vulnerability in Prosody, classified under CWE-399. Published 2011-06-22.
- Is CVE-2011-2205 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.