Vulnerability Details CVE-2014-2744
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.026
EPSS Ranking 85.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 7.8
References
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/
- http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fb
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57710
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895
- http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/
- http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fb
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57710
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895
- http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/
Products affected by CVE-2014-2744
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cpe:2.3:a:lightwitch:metronome:3.4
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:-
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.9.2
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.9.3