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.
Published: 2014-04-11
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: 2.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2895-2 prosody regression update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-2771 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.
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Lightwitch Metronome
Prosody Prosody
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T10:21:36.075Z

Reserved: 2014-04-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-2744

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-04-11T01:55:06.663

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-2744

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