CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-2743
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
plugins/mod_compression.lua in Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 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.
Affected configurations
• lightwitch metronome (<= 3.4)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411 Exploit, Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1 openwall.com
- http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/ xmpp.org
- http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411 Exploit, Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1 openwall.com
- http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/ xmpp.org