CVE-2011-3287

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-10-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Cisco Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (aka Jabber XCP) 2.x through 5.4.x before 5.4.0.27581 and 5.8.x before 5.8.1.27561 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption, and process crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka Bug ID CSCtq78106, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Affected products

Cisco Jabber Extensible Communications Platform: through 5.8; through 5.4; 5.0, 5.1, 5.2

References

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080b95d47.shtml
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080b95d47.shtml

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