CVE-2014-2744
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2744
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2014-2744.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2014-2744
- Downstream
- Published
- 2014-04-11T01:55:06Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-10T03:43:42.862862Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57710
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895
- http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fb
- http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fb
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1
- http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/