VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-2745

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

Description

Prosody before 0.9.4 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack, related to core/portmanager.lua and util/xmppstream.lua.

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-2014-2745

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.9.4-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.9.4-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.9.4-1
debian debiansidfixed0.9.4-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.9.4-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
prosodyprosody0.8.1
prosodyprosody0.8.2
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
prosodyprosody0.9.0
prosodyprosody0.9.1
prosodyprosody0.9.2

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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