CVE-2014-2744
EPSS 2.2%prosody - security update
Published: 4/11/2014Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/lua-expatfrom 0, < 1.3.0-1
- Debian/prosodyfrom 0, < 0.9.4-1
- Debian/prosodyfrom 0, < 0.8.2-4+deb7u1