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CVE-2015-8978

CVE-2015-8978 REJECTED

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.

EPSS 0.69% · 72.3th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.69%
72.3th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlibsoap-lite-perl0, 1.11-1

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Nov 22, 2016 CVE Published
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
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