CVE-2011-1757 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in DJabberd 0.84 and earlier, stemming from improper recursion detection during XML entity expansion. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted XML document with deeply nested entity references, leading to significant memory and CPU consumption. While the CVSS score is 5.0 (medium severity) with a low attack complexity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.84CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.80CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:0.80:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.81CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:0.81:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.82CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:0.82:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.83CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:brad_fitzpatrick:djabberd:0.83:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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