CVE-2011-2188
EPSS 1.2%
Description
LuaExpat before 1.2.0 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote 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.
How to fix CVE-2011-2188
To remediate CVE-2011-2188, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/lua-expat—upgrade to 1.2.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2011-2188 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.2.0-1