CVE-2011-1757 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2011-1757

DJabberd 0.84 and earlier does not properly detect recursion during...

Vulnerability Description

DJabberd 0.84 and earlier 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.

References

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Medium 5.5

Affected Vendor

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Affected Software

djabberd
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.80, 0.81, 0.82, 0.83

Timeline

Official Publish: June 21st, 2011
Last Modified: September 17th, 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.