CVE-2011-1483
wsf/common/DOMUtils.java in JBossWS Native in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2.0.CP09, 4.3, and 5.1.1; JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3.CP06 and 5.1.1; JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.2.CP05, 4.3.CP05, and 5.1.0; JBoss Communications Platform 1.2.11 and 5.1.1; JBoss Enterprise BRMS Platform 5.1.0; and JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.1 does not properly handle recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted request containing an XML document with a DOCTYPE declaration and a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 2.7% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-5182)
- Published
- July 29, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-5182 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- hp / network node manager i
- hp / network node manager i
- hp / network node manager i
- hp / network node manager i
- hp / network node manager i
- redhat / jboss communications platform
- redhat / jboss communications platform
- redhat / jboss enterprise application platform
- redhat / jboss enterprise application platform
- redhat / jboss enterprise application platform
- redhat / jboss enterprise brms platform
- redhat / jboss enterprise portal platform
- redhat / jboss enterprise portal platform
- redhat / jboss enterprise soa platform
- redhat / jboss enterprise soa platform
- redhat / jboss enterprise soa platform
- redhat / jboss enterprise web platform
Certified products that may be affected
2 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 Version 5.1.0 and 5.1.1 - Red Hat, Inc. - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0687-2011 - archived
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Version 4.3 CP03 - Red Hat, Inc. - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0531-2009 - archived
References
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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