Description
pupnp is an SDK for development of UPnP device and control point applications. Prior to 2.0.0, multiple ixml DOM traversal functions process deeply nested XML with unbounded recursion. The iterative XML parser accepts the document, but ixmlPrintDomTreeRecursive in ixml/src/ixml.c and ixmlNode_getElementsByTagNameRecursive, ixmlNode_getElementsByTagNameNSRecursive, ixmlNode_cloneNodeTreeRecursive, and ixmlNode_isAncestor in ixml/src/node.c recurse over firstChild and nextSibling links. An unauthenticated peer on the local network can supply deeply nested XML through a SOAP request, exhaust a service thread's stack, and crash the UPnP service. This is an incomplete-fix case for CVE-2021-28302 because its remediation converted ixmlNode_free but left these traversal paths recursive. This issue is fixed in 2.0.0.
Affected products
pupnp_project: pupnp
References4
- github.com/pupnp/pupnp/security/advisories/GHSA-25cx-xv8x-j247 ExploitMitigationVendor Advisory
- github.com/pupnp/pupnp/security/advisories/GHSA-25cx-xv8x-j247 ExploitMitigationVendor Advisory
- github.com/pupnp/pupnp/commit/82ccaec7ab6b1258ea1ac66374d894071… Patch
- github.com/pupnp/pupnp/releases/tag/release-2.0.0 Release Notes
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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6.5
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 41 · as of 10 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-674
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