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🛡️ CVE-2026-45771 — freeswitch

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-776 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
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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 <!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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-45771 is classified as CWE-776: XML Entity Expansion. Nested entity definitions expand enormously when parsed, consuming memory and CPU.

Affected software

CVE-2026-45771 is recorded against 1 package.

  • freeswitch (fixed in 1.11.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 9 June 2026 and last revised on 20 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
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Other advisories for this package

freeswitch has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-776: XML Entity Expansion) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-776
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-09
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-20
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
freeswitch — 1.11.0

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