CVE-2012-2921

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: 2012-05-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Universal Feed Parser (aka feedparser or python-feedparser) before 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML ENTITY declaration in a non-ASCII encoded document.

Affected products

Mark Pilgrim Feedparser: through 5.1.1; 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.0 (+7)

References

http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371
http://osvdb.org/81701
http://secunia.com/advisories/49256
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:118
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53654
https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/browse/trunk/NEWS?spec=svn706&r=706
https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/detail?r=703&path=/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0157
http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371
http://osvdb.org/81701
http://secunia.com/advisories/49256
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:118

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