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CVE-2009-2473

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2009-08-21 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent 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 Platforms

Webdav Neon

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References