THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2014-2745
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2014-2745

Prosody vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
3.1%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
Prosody before 0.9.4 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, related to core/portmanager.lua and util/xmppstream.lua.
Affected vendor
Prosody
Affected product
Prosody
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 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-2745

  • Confirm whether Prosody Prosody is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-2745.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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