CVE-2011-1755

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

jabberd2 before 2.2.14 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-776

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Jun 21, 2011
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2011-1755: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix