CVE-2009-2473

neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial…

published August 21, 2009

CVSS
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EPSS
8%
Percentile
95.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.08437 · 95.0th percentile
Published
2009-08-21T17:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 AUG 17:00Z
    neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial…
    cvelistv5