CVE catalog

CVE-2011-2205

prosody: CVE-2011-2205

Severity: Medium
Published: Jun 22, 2011, 9:55:01 PM UTC
Source: [NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS: 2.07% · Oct 27, 2026

Prosody before 0.8.1 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.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

Distribution	Package	Release	Version	Status
Debian	prosody	sid	`13.0.7-1`	fixed
Debian	prosody	forky	`13.0.7-1`	fixed
Debian	prosody	trixie	`13.0.1-1+deb131u`	fixed
Debian	prosody	trixie-security	`13.0.1-1+deb131u`	fixed
Debian	prosody	bookworm	`0.12.3-1+deb12u1`	fixed
Debian	prosody	bookworm-security	`0.12.3-1+deb12u1`	fixed

Fixed-version evidence

Distribution	Package	Type	Release	Fixed version	Urgency	Origin	Bugs
Debian	prosody	source	sid	`0.7.0-1`	low	Not reported	[579087]
Debian	prosody	source	forky	`0.7.0-1`	low	Not reported	[579087]
Debian	prosody	source	trixie	`0.7.0-1`	low	Not reported	[579087]
Debian	prosody	source	bookworm	`0.7.0-1`	low	Not reported	[579087]

[Debian bug #579087]

OpenFactory catalog packages

Matching against OpenFactory catalog package versions is in progress.

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

[prosody]Unknown
Details (6)
- 0.12.3-1+deb12u1 · amd64 · bookworm
  Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.0-1
  dsa · prosody · debian · bookworm; dsa · prosody · debian · 12
- 0.12.3-1+deb12u1 · arm64 · bookworm
  Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.0-1
  dsa · prosody · debian · bookworm; dsa · prosody · debian · 12
- 13.0.1-1~bpo12+1 · amd64 · bookworm-backports
  Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.0-1
  dsa · prosody · debian · bookworm; dsa · prosody · debian · 12
- 13.0.1-1~bpo12+1 · arm64 · bookworm-backports
  Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.0-1
  dsa · prosody · debian · bookworm; dsa · prosody · debian · 12
- 0.12.3-1+deb12u1 · amd64 · bookworm-security
  Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.0-1
  dsa · prosody · debian · bookworm; dsa · prosody · debian · 12
- 0.12.3-1+deb12u1 · arm64 · bookworm-security
  Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.0-1
  dsa · prosody · debian · bookworm; dsa · prosody · debian · 12

[Debian 13 (Trixie)]

[prosody]Unknown
Details (6)
- 13.0.1-1+deb131u · amd64 · trixie
  Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.0-1
  dsa · prosody · debian · 13
- 13.0.1-1+deb131u · arm64 · trixie
  Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.0-1
  dsa · prosody · debian · 13
- 13.0.6-1~bpo13+1 · amd64 · trixie-backports
  Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.0-1
  dsa · prosody · debian · 13
- 13.0.6-1~bpo13+1 · arm64 · trixie-backports
  Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.0-1
  dsa · prosody · debian · 13
- 13.0.1-1+deb131u · amd64 · trixie-security
  Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.0-1
  dsa · prosody · debian · 13
- 13.0.1-1+deb131u · arm64 · trixie-security
  Fixed · Fixed: 0.7.0-1
  dsa · prosody · debian · 13

Observed: Oct 23, 2026, 5:05:26 PM UTC

References

[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database]