CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-2829
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
Erlang Solutions MongooseIM through 1.3.1 rev. 2 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
• erlang-solutions mongooseim (<= 1.3.1)
• erlang-solutions mongooseim 1.2.1
• erlang-solutions mongooseim 1.2.2
• erlang-solutions mongooseim 1.3.0
• erlang-solutions mongooseim 1.3.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/ xmpp.org
- https://github.com/esl/MongooseIM/commit/586d96cc12ef218243a3466354b4d208b5472a6c Exploit, Patch
- http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/ xmpp.org
- https://github.com/esl/MongooseIM/commit/586d96cc12ef218243a3466354b4d208b5472a6c Exploit, Patch