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CVE-2011-1483

wsf/common/DOMUtils.java in JBossWS Native in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2.0.CP09, 4.3, and 5.1.1;

wsf/common/DOMUtils.java in JBossWS Native in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2.0.CP09, 4.3, and 5.1.1.

JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3.CP06 and 5.1.1.

JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.2.CP05, 4.3.CP05, and 5.1.0.

JBoss Communications Platform 1.2.11 and 5.1.1.

JBoss Enterprise BRMS Platform 5.1.0.

and JBoss Enterprise Web Platform 5.1.1 does not properly handle recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted request containing an XML document with a DOCTYPE declaration and a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.03742
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Affected Packages

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Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Maven org.jboss.ws:jbossws-common LOW fixed in 2.1.0.Final

Scoring & Timeline

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MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD29 Jul 2013 · 01:59 PM

Vendor Advisories

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rhsaRHSA-2011:1311Important
rhsaRHSA-2011:1312Important
rhsaRHSA-2011:1301Important
rhsaRHSA-2011:1313Important
rhsaRHSA-2011:1302Important
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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