Prosody up to 0.9.3 access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Prosody. This impacts an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in access control. This vulnerability was named CVE-2014-2745. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Prosody. This affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was presented 04/10/2014 (Website). The advisory is shared at xmpp.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2014-2745 since 04/08/2014. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 73846 (Fedora 19 : prosody-0.8.2-11.fc19 (2014-5586)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks.

Upgrading to version 0.9.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (92522), Tenable (73846), Secunia (SA57710†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-44436†). See VDB-66932, VDB-66931, VDB-66930 and VDB-66929 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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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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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 73846
Nessus Name: Fedora 19 : prosody-0.8.2-11.fc19 (2014-5586)
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OpenVAS ID: 867743
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Update for prosody FEDORA-2014-5586
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Prosody 0.9.4

Timelineinfo

04/02/2014 🔍
04/08/2014 +6 days 🔍
04/08/2014 +0 days 🔍
04/10/2014 +2 days 🔍
04/10/2014 +0 days 🔍
05/12/2014 +32 days 🔍
03/24/2015 +316 days 🔍
05/10/2026 +4065 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: xmpp.org
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2014-2745 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-2745
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-66933
X-Force: 92522
SecurityFocus: 66723
Secunia: 57710 - Debian update for prosody, Moderately Critical
Vulnerability Center: 44436 - Prosody before 0.9.4 Remote DoS due to Improper Processing of Compressed XML Elements, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 05/10/2026 09:35
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (55), 05/27/2017 10:53 (12), 02/08/2022 07:34 (4), 05/10/2026 09:35 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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