CVE-2014-2744

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.8/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Apr 11, 2014
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2014-2744: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix