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CVE-2014-2744

21
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0331 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

blog.prosody.im / prosody-0-9-4-released
Vendor Advisory
code.lightwitch.org / metronome/rev/49f47277a411
ExploitPatch
hg.prosody.im / 0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fb
ExploitPatch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1
secunia.com / advisories/57710
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2895
xmpp.org / resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas