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CVE-2014-2745

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
11/04/2014
Last modified:
12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.80
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0.9.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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