{"id":"CVE-2026-45771","aliases":["EUVD-2026-35468","GHSA-5vjg-pv56-vg4c"],"status":"published","title":"Freeswitch Denial-of-Service in SIP PUBLISH Requests via XML Entity Expansion","description":"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 \u003c!ENTITY\u003e 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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00343,"percentile":0.28241,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-776"],"published":"2026-06-09T15:51:49Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:55Z","products":[{"vendor":"freeswitch","product":"freeswitch"},{"vendor":"signalwire","product":"freeswitch"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/signalwire/freeswitch/security/advisories/GHSA-5vjg-pv56-vg4c","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","Mitigation","Vendor Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/signalwire/freeswitch/releases/tag/v1.11.0","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Product","Release Notes","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/45xxx/CVE-2026-45771.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45771","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-45771","title":"Freeswitch Denial-of-Service in SIP PUBLISH Requests via XML Entity Expansion","description":"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. 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