CVE-2014-2744
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 11, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 8, 2014
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/
- DSA-2895vendor-advisory
- 57710third-party-advisory
- http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fb
- [oss-security] 20140408 Re: (Openfire M-Link Metronome Prosody Tigase) Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compressionmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20140407 Re: Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compressionmailing-list
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