CVE-2026-45771

Freeswitch Denial-of-Service in SIP PUBLISH Requests via XML Entity Expansion

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: June 9, 2026 at 03:51 PM UTC
Updated: July 20, 2026 at 08:28 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFreeswitchFreeswitch

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 1.11.0
Affected range stops below 1.11.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 1.11.0
Affected range stops below 1.11.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (2)

x_refsource_CONFIRMMitigationVendor Advisory
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/signalwire/freeswitch/security/advisories/GHSA-5vjg-pv56-vg4c
x_refsource_MISCProductRelease Notes
Source: cverecord
https://github.com/signalwire/freeswitch/releases/tag/v1.11.0

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.5HIGHGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-776

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