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CVE-2011-1483

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-07-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

wsf/common/DOMUtils.java in JBossWS Native in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2.0.CP09, 4.3, and 5.1.1; JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3.CP06 and 5.1.1; JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.2.CP05, 4.3.CP05, and 5.1.0; JBoss Communications Platform 1.2.11 and 5.1.1; JBoss Enterprise BRMS Platform 5.1.0; and JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.1 does not properly handle recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted request containing an XML document with a DOCTYPE declaration and a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Affected products

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise HP Network Node Manager (NNMi): 9.0, 9.01, 9.02, 9.03, 9.10
• RedHat Jboss Communications Platform: 1.2.11, 5.1.1
• Red Hat JBoss EAP: 4.2.0-cp09, 4.3.0, 5.1.1
• RedHat Jboss Enterprise Brms Platform: 5.1.0
• RedHat Jboss Enterprise Portal Platform: 4.3.0-cp06, 5.1.1
• RedHat Jboss Enterprise Soa Platform: 4.2.0-cp05, 4.3.0-cp05, 5.1.0
• RedHat Jboss Enterprise Web Platform: 5.1.1

References

• http://source.jboss.org/changelog/JBossWS/?cs=13996
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692584
• https://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c03824583
• http://source.jboss.org/changelog/JBossWS/?cs=13996
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692584
• https://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c03824583

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