jabberd2 before 2.2.14 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.

Threat-Mapped Scoring

Score: 1.5

Priority: P4 - Informational (Low)

• S10 – Denial of Service

EPSS

Score: 0.08459
Percentile: 0.91934

CVSS Scoring

Mapped CWE(s)

• CWE-776 : Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

All CAPEC(s)

CAPEC(s) with Mapped TTPs

Mapped ATT&CK TTPs

Affected Products

• cpe:2.3:a:jabberd2:jabberd2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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