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CVE-2014-2741

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-2741 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Ignite Realtime Openfire versions prior to 3.9.2. Attackers can exploit this by sending a crafted XMPP stream containing compressed XML elements, leading to excessive resource consumption on the server. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high severity due to its network-based attack vector and complete availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit tools like Metasploit or Nuclei modules, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:igniterealtime:openfire:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0377 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.igniterealtime.openfire:parentFixed in: 3.9.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-j5qh-cp3p-2h87high

Ignite Realtime Openfire vulnerable to XMPPbomb attack

May 17, 2022

References

community.igniterealtime.org / thread/52317
fisheye.igniterealtime.org / changelog/openfiregit
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/495476
US Government Resource
xmpp.org / resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas