CVE-2014-2745

Severity

78%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

115%

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 2.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Prosody

First reported 11 years ago

2014-04-11 01:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2014-04-19 04:48:00

Affected Software

Prosody 0.1.0

0.1.0

Prosody 0.2.0

0.2.0

Prosody 0.3.0

0.3.0

Prosody 0.4.0

0.4.0

Prosody 0.4.1

0.4.1

Prosody 0.4.2

0.4.2

Prosody 0.5.0

0.5.0

Prosody 0.5.1

0.5.1

Prosody 0.5.2

0.5.2

Prosody 0.6.0

0.6.0

Prosody 0.6.1

0.6.1

Prosody 0.6.2

0.6.2

Prosody 0.7.0

0.7.0

Prosody 0.8.0

0.8.0

Prosody 0.8.1

0.8.1

Prosody 0.8.2

0.8.2

Prosody 0.9.0

0.9.0

Prosody 0.9.1

0.9.1

Prosody 0.9.2

0.9.2

References

http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/

http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/1107d66d2ab2

http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/a97591d2e1ad

[oss-security] 20140407 Re: Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression

[oss-security] 20140408 Re: (Openfire M-Link Metronome Prosody Tigase) Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression

57710

DSA-2895

http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/

Stay updated

ExploitPedia is constantly evolving. Sign up to receive a notification when we release additional functionality.

Get in touch

If you'd like to report a bug or have any suggestions for improvements then please do get in touch with us using this form. We will get back to you as soon as we can.