CVE-2014-2745

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-2745
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerdebian
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-04-11 01:55:06 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionProsody 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Prosody Prosody 0.1.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.2.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.3.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.4.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.4.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.4.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.5.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.5.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.5.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.6.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.6.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.6.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.7.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.8.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.8.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.8.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.9.0 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.9.1 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody 0.9.2 All All All
Application Prosody Prosody All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2895-1 prosody af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression – The XMPP Standards Foundation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 xmpp.org
Security Advisory SA57710 - Debian update for prosody - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
oss-security - Re: Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
Prosody 0.9.4 released - Prosodical Thoughts af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blog.prosody.im
oss-security - Re: (Openfire M-Link Metronome Prosody Tigase) Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 openwall.com
Prosody IM 0.9: revision 1107d66d2ab2: util.xmppstream: Implement stanza size limiting, default limit 10MB af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 hg.prosody.im
Prosody IM 0.9: revision a97591d2e1ad: portmanager: Make maximum read size configurable, and default to 4KB af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 hg.prosody.im
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