CVE-2014-2745 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2014-2745

Prosody before 0.9.4 does not properly restrict the processing of...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

prosody
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.7.0, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.9.0, 0.9.1, 0.9.2

Timeline

Official Publish: April 11th, 2014
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.