Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A02:2025 - Security Misconfiguration
ASVS 5.0
V13 - Configuration XML entity recursion limits
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Jun 09, 2026
Denial of service in FreeSWITCH versions prior to 1.11.0 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to exhaust CPU and memory by sending a single SIP PUBLISH request whose PIDF body contains a malicious DTD with nested entity declarations. The bundled XML parser expands these entities before any digest authentication check, making this a pre-auth resource exhaustion vector (CWE-776, classic 'billion laughs'). No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but the CVSS 7.5 availability-only impact reflects a high-confidence DoS condition against any exposed FreeSWITCH instance.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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1DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Executive ViewAI
FreeSWITCH deployments prior to version 1.11.0 are vulnerable to unauthenticated remote denial-of-service attacks that can exhaust critical communications infrastructure. The vulnerability can be triggered through standard SIP protocol traffic, creating significant operational risk for organizations dependent on FreeSWITCH for VoIP services. With no vendor patch currently available, immediate network-level protection is required to prevent service disruption.
24 hours: Inventory all FreeSWITCH instances by version; restrict network access to SIP ports (5060/5061) to authorized endpoints only using firewall rules. 7 days: Deploy IDS/WAF rules to detect and block malformed XML payloads in SIP PUBLISH requests; enable detailed SIP transaction logging; configure monitoring for CPU/memory spikes on affected systems. 30 days: Stage and test FreeSWITCH 1.11.0 when vendor releases; plan emergency patch deployment; evaluate managed VoIP service alternatives if on-premise remediation timeline extends beyond risk tolerance.
Network segmentation limiting SIP access to pre-approved IP ranges and gateways; SIP rate-limiting on inbound PUBLISH requests; packet-level filtering for XML entity declarations and nested DTD structures in SIP payloads; disable PUBLISH/PIDF functionality if operationally unnecessary; implement dedicated monitoring with alerting on FreeSWITCH process CPU and memory utilization; maintain redundant VoIP capacity to absorb partial service degradation.
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