CVE-2015-8978

Description

In Soap Lite (aka the SOAP::Lite extension for Perl) 1.14 and earlier, an example attack consists of defining 10 or more XML entities, each defined as consisting of 10 of the previous entity, with the document consisting of a single instance of the largest entity, which expands to one billion copies of the first entity. The amount of computer memory used for handling an external SOAP call would likely exceed that available to the process parsing the XML.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.59%
Vendor Advisory perl.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94487 vdb entry
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PHRED/SOAP-Lite-1.20/Changes vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2015-8978?
CVE-2015-8978 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2015-8978?
To fix CVE-2015-8978, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2015-8978 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2015-8978 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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