CVE-2014-2744
N/A
Published: April 11, 2014 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:07 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsProsodyMetronome
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (8)
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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