igniterealtime/openfire · Security
Ignite Realtime Openfire vulnerable to XMPPbomb attack
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-j5qh-cp3p-2h87
- CVE ID
- CVE-2014-2741
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
nio/XMLLightweightParser.java in Ignite Realtime Openfire before 3.9.2 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.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2741 ↗
- http://community.igniterealtime.org/thread/52317 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/07/7 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/09/1 ↗
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/495476 ↗
- https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire/commit/3aec383e07ee893b77396fe946766bbd3758af77 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140407092132/http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140705161237/http://fisheye.igniterealtime.org/changelog/openfiregit?cs=3aec383e07ee893b77396fe946766bbd3758af77 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j5qh-cp3p-2h87 ↗