CVE-2026-45771 HIGH

CVE-2026-45771: Freeswitch Denial-of-Service in SIP PUBLISH Requests via XML Entity Expansion

Vendor Signalwire
Product freeswitch
Weakness CWE-776
Published June 9, 2026
Last update June 9, 2026

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 9, 2026 CVE published
June 9, 2026 Record updated