VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-2744

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability3.31%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-04-11
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references