CVE-2014-2741

Openfire vulnerability

CVSS

7.8

EPSS

3.8%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

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 vendor

Igniterealtime

Affected product

Openfire

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Published

2014-04-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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