CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-2744

7.8 HIGH Published 2014-04-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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-20

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• lightwitch metronome (<= 3.4) • prosody prosody (<= 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 0.8.1 • prosody prosody 0.8.2 • prosody prosody 0.9.0 • prosody prosody 0.9.1 • prosody prosody 0.9.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References