Actively exploited in the wild

Ignite Realtime Openfire Path Traversal Vulnerability

Ignite Realtime - Openfire · Listed in the CISA KEV since 2023-08-24. This indicates confirmed attacks in production environments.

Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CVE-2023-32315

HighCVSS 8.6KEV

Published: 26/05/2023(UTC)Updated: 17/06/2026(UTC)Translated: 18/09/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

A path traversal vulnerability in Openfire's administrative console allows an unauthenticated user to access restricted pages reserved for administrators. Affects all versions since 3.10.0. Patched in 4.7.5 and 4.6.8.

Risk Assessment

An unauthenticated attacker could gain access to the admin console, potentially leading to full compromise of the XMPP server.

Recommendation

Upgrade Openfire to version 4.7.5 or 4.6.8 or later. If upgrade is not possible, apply mitigations from advisory GHSA-gw42-f939-fhvm.

Other vulnerabilities in Openfire

CVE-2014-2741High
In Openfire versions before 3.9.2, there is a vulnerability in nio/XMLLightweightParser.java that does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XMPP stream, known as an 'xmppbomb' attack.

Original NVD description (English source)

Openfire is an XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License. Openfire's administrative console, a web-based application, was found to be vulnerable to a path traversal attack via the setup environment. This permitted an unauthenticated user to use the unauthenticated Openfire Setup Environment in an already configured Openfire environment to access restricted pages in the Openfire Admin Console reserved for administrative users. This vulnerability affects all versions of Openfire that have been released since April 2015, starting with version 3.10.0. The problem has been patched in Openfire release 4.7.5 and 4.6.8, and further improvements will be included in the yet-to-be released first version on the 4.8 branch (which is expected to be version 4.8.0). Users are advised to upgrade. If an Openfire upgrade isn’t available for a specific release, or isn’t quickly actionable, users may see the linked github advisory (GHSA-gw42-f939-fhvm) for mitigation advice.