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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, aka an "xmppbomb" attack, related to core/portmanager.lua and util/xmppstream.lua.

Published

2014-04-11T01:55:06.693

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-264

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
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/ ([email protected])
http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/1107d66d2ab2 ([email protected])
http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/a97591d2e1ad ([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/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/1107d66d2ab2 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/a97591d2e1ad (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)