CVE-2014-2744 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Prosody before 0.9.4 and Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4. The flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to trigger excessive resource consumption by sending compressed XML elements in an XMPP stream, known as an "xmppbomb" attack. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a critical impact on availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit tools or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:lightwitch:metronome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 0.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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