CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-40511

Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

Published: Jun 21, 2022 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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OBDA systems’ Mastro 1.0 is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion (aka “billion laughs”) attack allowing denial of service.

Weakness

The product uses XML documents and allows their structure to be defined with a Document Type Definition (DTD), but it does not properly control the number of recursive definitions of entities.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
MastroObdasystems1.0 (including)1.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References