CVE-2011-1483
JBossWS vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion
EPSS 3.7%
Description
DOMUtils.java in org.jboss.ws:jbossws-common does not properly handle recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted request containing an XML document with a DOCTYPE declaration and a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
How to fix CVE-2011-1483
To remediate CVE-2011-1483, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Maven/org.jboss.ws:jbossws-common—upgrade to 2.1.0.Final or later
Is CVE-2011-1483 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 3.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.1.0.Final