kurtmckee/feedparser · Security
feedparser denial of service vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-hjf3-r7gw-9rwg
- CVE ID
- CVE-2012-2921
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Universal Feed Parser (aka feedparser or python-feedparser) before 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML ENTITY declaration in a non-ASCII encoded document.
CWEs
- CWE-611 · Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2921 ↗
- https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/browse/trunk/NEWS?spec=svn706&r=706 ↗
- https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/detail?r=703&path=/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hjf3-r7gw-9rwg ↗
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0157 ↗
- http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/feedparser/PYSEC-2012-14.yaml ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120604210617/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53654 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150523060531/http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/advisory/MDVSA-2013:118/?name=MDVSA-2013:118 ↗