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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 22, 2011· Updated Apr 29, 2026

CVE-2011-2205

CVE-2011-2205

Description

Prosody before 0.8.1 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

16
  • Prosody/Prosody16 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 15 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=0.8.0
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

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