CVE-2014-2741

EPSS 3.2%

Ignite Realtime Openfire vulnerable to XMPPbomb attack

Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/13/2025

Description

nio/XMLLightweightParser.java in Ignite Realtime Openfire before 3.9.2 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack.

Affected packages (1)

Maven/org.igniterealtime.openfire:parentfrom 0, < 3.9.2

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 4.0	—	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

References (9)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2741
PATCHhttps://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire
WEBhttp://community.igniterealtime.org/thread/52317
WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7
WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1
WEBhttps://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire/commit/3aec383e07ee893b77396fe946766bbd3758af77
WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20140407092132/http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas
WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20140705161237/http://fisheye.igniterealtime.org/changelog/openfiregit?cs=3aec383e07ee893b77396fe946766bbd3758af77
WEBhttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/495476