CVE-2026-43507
Description
A flaw was found in Prosody. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted XML data, leading to excessive memory consumption. This memory exhaustion can cause a Denial of Service (DoS), making the service unavailable to legitimate users.
Statement
Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)
If parsed, recursive entity references allow the attacker to expand data exponentially, quickly consuming all system resources.
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