CVE-2014-2744
highpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.033 · 89 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.6–7.8
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affected products (22)
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also known as (3)
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references (25)
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- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/cnnvd
- http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411cnnvd
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fbcnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7cnnvd
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57473cnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57749cnnvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895cnnvd
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