A vulnerability was found in OpenFire XMPP Server up to 3.9 (Messaging Software). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Certificate Validation Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

OpenFire XMPP Server before 3.10 accepts self-signed certificates, which allows remote attackers to perform unspecified spoofing attacks.

The bug was discovered 05/09/2014. The weakness was shared 08/18/2017 by Simon Waters as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-3451 since 05/09/2014. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1587.003 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1197 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 3.10 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Messaging Software

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• OpenFire

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• XMPP Server

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• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9

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