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CVE-2015-8978

CVE-2015-8978 REJECTED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

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 1.50% · 72.2th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.0
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
1.50%
72.2th percentile

Affected Products

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

Timeline

  • Nov 22, 2016 CVE Published
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
  • May 21, 2022 EPSS Score
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  • Oct 27, 2022 EPSS Score
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  • Feb 10, 2023 EPSS Score
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