CVE-2011-1753 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2011-1753

expat_erl.c in ejabberd before 2.1.7 and 3.x before 3.0.0-alpha-3, and...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

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Affected Software

ejabberd, exmpp
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.8, 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.1.0, 1.1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.14, 2.0.0, 2.0.1_2, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5, 3.0.0, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5

Timeline

Official Publish: June 21st, 2011
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.