CVE-2014-2745 — Prosody vulnerability
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.2%
top 15.58%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 11
Latest updateMay 17
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.
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:CExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.9
Affected Packages3 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2014-2745: prosody - Prosody before 0.9.4 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML...↗2014
💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2014-2745 CVE-2014-2744 prosody: resource consumption denial of service when using XMPP application-layer compression↗2014-04-09