CVE-2014-2744 (GCVE-0-2014-2744)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-04-11 01:00
Modified
2024-08-06 10:21
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
plugins/mod_compression.lua in (1) Prosody before 0.9.4 and (2) Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 negotiates stream compression while a session is unauthenticated, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via compressed XML elements in an XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack.
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