CVE-2011-2205: Prosody

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Prosody Prosody: up to and including 0.8.0; version 0.1.0 only; version 0.2.0 only; version 0.3.0 only; version 0.4.0 only; version 0.4.1 only; …

Published 2011-06-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.