CVE-2008-5185

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-11-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an XML sequence containing an opening delimiter without a closing delimiter, as demonstrated using "<".

Affected products

Geshi: through 1.0.7.22; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.2_beta_1, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+24)

References

http://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/geshi.php?r1=1321&r2=1322&view=patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32377
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46769
http://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/geshi.php?r1=1321&r2=1322&view=patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/20/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32377
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46769

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