CVE-2011-1753
Ejabberd XML Entity Expansion Denial of Service
Description
expat_erl.c in ejabberd before 2.1.7 and 3.x before 3.0.0-alpha-3, and exmpp before 0.9.7, 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.
INFO
Published Date :
June 21, 2011, 2:52 a.m.
Last Modified :
April 11, 2025, 12:51 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
10.0
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062099.html Added Reference http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062145.html Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/44765 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/44807 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/45120 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2248 Added Reference http://www.ejabberd.im/ejabberd-2.1.7 Added Reference http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/release_notes/release_note_ejabberd_2.1.7/ Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48072 Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700454 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67769 Added Reference https://git.process-one.net/ejabberd/mainline/commit/bd1df027c622e1f96f9eeaac612a6a956c1ff0b6 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 17, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/67769 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67769 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Jun. 21, 2011
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2011-1753 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2011-1753
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
1.94 }} -0.13%
score
0.81769
percentile