CVE-2026-45771 json
Freeswitch Denial-of-Service in SIP PUBLISH Requests via XML Entity Expansion
published 5mo ago modified 3mo ago also EUVD-2026-35468
- cvss
- 7.5
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.3%
- EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. Prior to version 1.11.0, FreeSWITCH's bundled XML parser expands nested <!ENTITY> declarations without a depth or count bound, so a small DTD can describe a body that expands exponentially ("billion laughs"). The PIDF body of a SIP PUBLISH is fed to this parser before any digest check, letting an unauthenticated network attacker force unbounded CPU and memory consumption with a single request. This issue has been patched in version 1.11.0.
Patch / fix
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Check with FencerCISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 5mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Affected products
- signalwire freeswitch
Classification
- Weakness
-
- CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs
References
-
github.com
/signalwire/freeswitch/security/advisories/GHSA-5vjg-pv56-vg4c
mitigation, vendor-advisory
-
github.com
/signalwire/freeswitch/releases/tag/v1.11.0
product, release-notes
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-45771
- NVD CVE-2026-45771
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