Description
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.
Published: 2009-08-21
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 7.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-2468 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.
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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.08215}

epss

{'score': 0.09502}


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Redhat Enterprise Linux
Webdav Neon
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:52:14.763Z

Reserved: 2009-07-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-2473

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-08-21T17:30:00.327

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-2473

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2009-08-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-2473 - Bugzilla

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