CVE-2014-8760 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

ejabberd before 2.1.13 does not enforce the starttls_required setting when compression is used, which causes clients to establish connections without encryption.

Published: 2014-10-25

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:process-one:ejabberd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-881-1	ejabberd security update
EUVD	EUVD-2014-8591	ejabberd before 2.1.13 does not enforce the starttls_required setting when compression is used, which causes clients to establish connections without encryption.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00264.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0417.html
http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/operators/2014-October/002438.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/312
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:207
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:175
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70415
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153839
https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/commit/7bdc1151b

History

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Process-one Ejabberd

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-10-25T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:26:02.547Z

Reserved: 2014-10-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-8760

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-10-25T00:55:05.210

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

Link: CVE-2014-8760

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-310

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