Prosody up to 0.8.0 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Prosody up to 0.8.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. This manipulation causes resource management. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2011-2205. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Prosody up to 0.8.0. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was released 06/22/2011 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at prosody.im. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2011-2205 since 05/31/2011. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 0.5.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (67884), SecurityFocus (BID 48125†) and Secunia (SA44852†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-57754 and VDB-57753. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Prosody 0.5.2

Timelineinfo

05/31/2011 🔍
06/07/2011 +7 days 🔍
06/07/2011 +0 days 🔍
06/22/2011 +15 days 🔍
06/22/2011 +0 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +1370 days 🔍
02/09/2019 +1419 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: prosody.im
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2011-2205 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2011-2205
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-57751
X-Force: 67884
SecurityFocus: 48125 - Prosody XML Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 44852 - Prosody XML and JSON Processing Denial of Service Vulnerabilities, Less Critical

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 02/09/2019 11:13
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (50), 02/09/2019 11:13 (7)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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