In Soap Lite (aka the SOAP::Lite extension for Perl) 1.14 and earlier, an example attack consists of defining 10 or more XML entities, each defined as consisting of 10 of the previous entity, with the document consisting of a single instance of the largest entity, which expands to one billion copies of the first entity. The amount of computer memory used for handling an external SOAP call would likely exceed that available to the process parsing the XML.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-11-22T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:36:30.737Z

Reserved: 2016-11-22T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-8978

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-11-22T17:59:00.180

Modified: 2016-11-28T19:50:59.600

Link: CVE-2015-8978

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-07-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8978 - Bugzilla