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CVE-2018-10868 — redhat-certification 7 does not properly restrict the number of recursive defini

redhat-certification 7 does not properly restrict the number of recursive definitions of entities in XML documents, allowing an unauthenticated user to run a "Billion Laugh Attack" by replying to XMLRPC methods when getting the status of an host.

CVSS
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EPSS
1.17% (top 21.50%)
CWE
CWE-400
Published
2021-05-26T18:03:25.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T07:46:47.017Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

redhat-certification 7 does not properly restrict the number of recursive definitions of entities in XML documents, allowing an unauthenticated user to run a "Billion Laugh Attack" by replying to XMLRPC methods when getting the status of an host.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / redhatcertification — redhat-certification 7

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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