CVE-2018-10847

MEDIUM
4.2
CVSS Score
Published: July 30, 2018 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:34 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorProsody

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Severity
MEDIUM4.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

prosody before versions 0.10.2, 0.9.14 is vulnerable to an Authentication Bypass. Prosody did not verify that the virtual host associated with a user session remained the same across stream restarts. A user may authenticate to XMPP host A and migrate their authenticated session to XMPP host B of the same Prosody instance.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Affected range stops below 0.9.14, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (5)

x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10847
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://issues.prosody.im/1147
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4216

CVSS

4.2MEDIUMredhat
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-592CWE-287

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