CVE-2011-3288 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cisco Unified Presence before 8.5(4) does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption, and process crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka Bug IDs CSCtq89842 and CSCtq88547, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Published: 2011-10-06

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 1.8% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:cisco:unified_presence:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01768.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_advisory09186a0080b95d47.shtml
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/csa/cisco-sa-20110928-xcpcupsxml.html

History

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Subscriptions

Cisco Unified Presence

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cisco

Published: 2011-10-06T10:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T22:36:23.734Z

Reserved: 2011-08-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-3288

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-10-06T10:55:05.097

Modified: 2026-06-16T23:33:02.050

Link: CVE-2011-3288

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-776
Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

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