CVE-2017-18265
prosody - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.1%
Description
Prosody before 0.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), related to an incompatibility with certain versions of the LuaSocket library, such as the lua-socket package from Debian stretch. The attacker needs to trigger a stream error. A crash can be observed in, for example, the c2s module.
How to fix CVE-2017-18265
To remediate CVE-2017-18265, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 0.10.0-1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.9.12-2+deb9u1 or later
Is CVE-2017-18265 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.10.0-1
- from 0, < 0.9.12-2+deb9u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |