CVE-2015-8978 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PHRED/SOAP-Lite-1.20/Changes http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94487

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5