CVE-2014-2745
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0.9.4-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 0.9.4-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 0.9.4-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0.9.4-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0.9.4-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| prosody | prosody | 0.8.1 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.8.2 | |
| prosody | prosody | {"endIncluding":"0.9.3"} | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.1.0 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.2.0 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.3.0 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.4.0 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.4.1 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.4.2 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.5.0 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.5.1 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.5.2 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.6.0 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.6.1 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.6.2 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.7.0 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.8.0 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.9.0 | |
| prosody | prosody | 0.9.1 | |
| prosody | prosody | 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
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57710
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895
- http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2745
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.