CVE detail
CVE-2009-2473 — CVE-2009-2473
Published 2009-08-21 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor webdav · Product neon · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0844
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
94.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References