CVE-2011-2205

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-399

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jun 22, 2011
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2011-2205: Medium severity, CVSS 5.0 | Vulnix