CVE-2014-2745

N/A Unknown
Published: April 11, 2014 Modified: May 06, 2026
View on NVD

Description

Prosody before 0.9.4 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack, related to core/portmanager.lua and util/xmppstream.lua.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/
Source: security@debian.org
http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/1107d66d2ab2
Source: security@debian.org
http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/a97591d2e1ad
Source: security@debian.org
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7
Source: security@debian.org
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1
Source: security@debian.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/57710
Source: security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895
Source: security@debian.org
http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/
Source: security@debian.org
http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/1107d66d2ab2
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/a97591d2e1ad
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/57710
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

16 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
2.2%
85th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

Affected Vendors

prosody

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