Vulnerability CVE-2012-2921
Published: 2012-05-21   Modified: 2012-05-22

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.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Mark pilgrim -> Feedparser 

 References:
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://osvdb.org/81701
http://freecode.com/projects/feedparser/releases/344371
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