CVE-2012-2921

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-2921
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-05-21 22:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionUniversal 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser 3.0 All All All
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser 3.0.1 All All All
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser 3.1 All All All
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser 3.2 All All All
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser 3.3 All All All
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser 4.0 All All All
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser 4.0.1 All All All
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser 4.0.2 All All All
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser 4.1 All All All
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser 5.0 All All All
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser 5.0.1 All All All
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser 5.1 All All All
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser 5.1.2 All All All
Application Mark Pilgrim Feedparser All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
All releases of feedparser – Freecode af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 freecode.com
Security Advisory SA49256 - Ubuntu update for feedparser - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
GitHub - kurtmckee/feedparser: Parse feeds in Python af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 code.google.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2013:118 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
GitHub - kurtmckee/feedparser: Parse feeds in Python af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 code.google.com
osvdb.org/81701 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0157 - Mageia wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.mageia.org
feedparser CVE-2012-2921 Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981040 Python (pip) Security Update for feedparser (GHSA-hjf3-r7gw-9rwg)

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