CVE-2014-2744
prosody - security update
EPSS 2.2%
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.
How to fix CVE-2014-2744
To remediate CVE-2014-2744, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/lua-expat—upgrade to 1.3.0-1 or later
- Debian/prosody—upgrade to 0.9.4-1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.8.2-4+deb7u1 or later
Is CVE-2014-2744 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 1.3.0-1
- from 0, < 0.9.4-1
- from 0, < 0.8.2-4+deb7u1