CVE-2011-2205
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.1%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 2.1% (82th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-2194)
- Published
- June 22, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-2194 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
- prosody / prosody
References
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/(Patch)
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4(Patch)
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d(Patch)
- http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44852(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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