CVE-2014-2745 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,....
HighCVSS 7.8
EPSS 3.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Exploit status
- No public exploit known
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.
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| prosody | = 0.9.1 | No fix listed |
| prosody | = 0.9.2 | No fix listed |
References
- Debian Security Tracker CVE-2014-2745 vendor-advisory
- blog.prosody.im
- hg.prosody.im
- hg.prosody.im
- [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