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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 cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via compressed XML elements in an XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack.

Published

2014-04-11T01:55:06.663

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-20

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	lightwitch	metronome	≤ 3.4	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	≤ 0.9.3	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.1.0	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.2.0	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.3.0	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.4.0	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.4.1	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.4.2	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.5.0	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.5.1	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.5.2	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.6.0	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.6.1	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.6.2	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.7.0	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.8.0	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.8.1	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.8.2	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.9.0	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.9.1	Yes
Application	prosody	prosody	0.9.2	Yes

References

http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/ Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411 Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fb Exploit, Patch ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/57710 ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895 ([email protected])
http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/ ([email protected])
http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/ Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411 Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fb Exploit, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/57710 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)