CVE-2026-43507 (GCVE-0-2026-43507)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-01 14:47 – Updated: 2026-05-01 15:20
VLAI?
Summary
An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.12.6 and 1.0.0 through 13.0.0 before 13.0.5. A Denial of Service can occur via memory exhaustion caused by XML parsing resource amplification from unauthenticated connections.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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