XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service Vulnerability in Prosody

CVE-2011-2205 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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