CVE-2011-1757

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Brad Fitzpatrick Djabberd: through 0.84; 0.80, 0.81, 0.82, 0.83

References

http://groups.google.com/group/djabberd/msg/e3b250f3c1877ede?dmode=source
http://groups.google.com/group/djabberd/msg/e3b250f3c1877ede?dmode=source

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