Input validation error - CVE-2014-2744
Published: April 11, 2014 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33663
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-2744
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
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.
Affected software
prosody (Alpine package)
prosody
Fedora
prosody
Fedora
How to mitigate CVE-2014-2744
Install update from vendor's website.
prosody (Alpine package) - update to 0.9.4-r0
prosody - addressed in versions 0.8.2-7.el6, 0.8.2-10.el5
prosody - addressed in versions 0.8.2-7.el6, 0.8.2-10.el5
External References
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/
- 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://secunia.com/advisories/57710
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2895
- http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/