CVE Catalog

CVE-2014-2745

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Prosody before 0.9.4 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XMPP stream, known as an 'xmppbomb' attack.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to overload the server, leading to service unavailability for XMPP users.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade Prosody to version 0.9.4 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS