CVE-2012-2921

high

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.

References

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0157

https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/detail?r=703&path=/trunk/feedparser/feedparser.py

https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/source/browse/trunk/NEWS?spec=svn706&r=706

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53654

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:118

http://secunia.com/advisories/49256

http://osvdb.org/81701

http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-05-21

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.7

Vector: 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