CVE-2011-2206

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-06-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

XMLParser.pm in DJabberd before 0.85 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files, and possibly send HTTP requests to intranet servers or cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption), via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1757.

Affected products

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

References

http://groups.google.com/group/djabberd/msg/80a462d5c28873d7?dmode=source&output=gplain
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
https://github.com/djabberd/DJabberd/commit/b41d6dc247a175fe8e092d6ec2c460826fa62992
https://raw.github.com/djabberd/DJabberd/master/CHANGES
http://groups.google.com/group/djabberd/msg/80a462d5c28873d7?dmode=source&output=gplain
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
https://github.com/djabberd/DJabberd/commit/b41d6dc247a175fe8e092d6ec2c460826fa62992
https://raw.github.com/djabberd/DJabberd/master/CHANGES

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