CVE-2014-2744 plugins/mod_compression.lua in (1) Prosody before 0.9.4 and (2) Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 negotiates stream compression while a session is unauthenticated, which allows remote attackers to caus...
HighCVSS 7.8
EPSS 3.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Exploit status
- No public exploit known
Description
plugins/mod_compression.lua in (1) Prosody before 0.9.4 and (2) Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 negotiates stream compression while a session is unauthenticated, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via compressed XML elements in an XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack.
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian/lua-expat(Debian:12) | < 1.3.0-1 | 1.3.0-1 |
| debian/lua-expat(Debian:13) | < 1.3.0-1 | 1.3.0-1 |
| debian/lua-expat(Debian:14) | < 1.3.0-1 | 1.3.0-1 |
| debian/prosody(Debian:12) | < 0.9.4-1 | 0.9.4-1 |
| debian/prosody(Debian:13) | < 0.9.4-1 | 0.9.4-1 |
| debian/prosody(Debian:14) | < 0.9.4-1 | 0.9.4-1 |
| lightwitch metronome | <= 3.4 | No fix listed |
| prosody | <= 0.9.3 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.1.0 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.2.0 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.3.0 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.4.0 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.4.1 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.4.2 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.5.0 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.5.1 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.5.2 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.6.0 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.6.1 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.6.2 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.7.0 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.8.0 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.8.1 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.8.2 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.9.0 | No fix listed |
Show 2 more
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| prosody | = 0.9.1 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.9.2 | No fix listed |
References
- Debian Security Tracker CVE-2014-2744 vendor-advisory
- blog.prosody.im vendor-advisory
- code.lightwitch.org exploit patch
- hg.prosody.im exploit patch
- [oss-security] 20140407 Re: Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20140408 Re: (Openfire M-Link Metronome Prosody Tigase) Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression mailing-list
- 57710 third-party-advisory
- DSA-2895 vendor-advisory
- xmpp.org