VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-2744

high
Published 2014-04-11 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
7.8
VIR risk
7.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2744

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@debian.org — http://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/b3b1c9da38fb

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@debian.org — http://code.lightwitch.org/metronome/rev/49f47277a411

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@debian.org — http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-9-4-released/

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.3.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.3.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.3.0-1
debian debiansidfixed1.3.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.3.0-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
lightwitchmetronome{"endIncluding":"3.4"}
prosodyprosody{"endIncluding":"0.9.3"}
prosodyprosody0.1.0
prosodyprosody0.2.0
prosodyprosody0.3.0
prosodyprosody0.4.0
prosodyprosody0.4.1
prosodyprosody0.4.2
prosodyprosody0.5.0
prosodyprosody0.5.1
prosodyprosody0.5.2
prosodyprosody0.6.0
prosodyprosody0.6.1
prosodyprosody0.6.2
prosodyprosody0.7.0
prosodyprosody0.8.0
prosodyprosody0.8.1
prosodyprosody0.8.2
prosodyprosody0.9.0
prosodyprosody0.9.1
prosodyprosody0.9.2

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.