CVE-2011-1754: Jabberd JABBERD14

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

jabberd14 1.6.1.1 and earlier 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.

Affected products

• Jabberd JABBERD14: up to and including 1.6.1.1; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 1.4.3.1 only; version 1.4.4 only; …

Published 2011-06-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.