Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion') Affecting freeswitch package, versions [,1.11.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREESWITCH-17391826
  • published21 Jun 2026
  • disclosed9 Jun 2026
  • creditoocsharp

Introduced: 9 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-45771  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-776  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freeswitch to version 1.11.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion') via the XML parser when processing the PIDF body of SIP PUBLISH requests. An attacker can cause unbounded CPU and memory consumption by submitting a specially crafted request containing deeply nested <!ENTITY> declarations.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1