Lightwitch Metronome 3.4 plugins/mod_compression.lua access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Lightwitch Metronome 3.4. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component plugins/mod_compression.lua. This manipulation causes access control. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-2743. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Lightwitch Metronome 3.4. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component plugins/mod_compression.lua. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

plugins/mod_compression.lua in Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 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.

The weakness was released 04/10/2014 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at xmpp.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2014-2743 since 04/08/2014. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-66933, VDB-66932, VDB-66930 and VDB-66929. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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03/24/2015 +348 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: xmpp.org
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2014-2743 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-2743
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-66931
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 05/10/2026 09:35
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (45), 03/28/2019 07:52 (3), 05/10/2026 09:35 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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