GHSA-j5qh-cp3p-2h87

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    GHSA-j5qh-cp3p-2h87

    Published: 17 May 2022Last Modified: 13 Apr 2025
    Aliases:
    CVE-2014-2741

    Summary: Ignite Realtime Openfire vulnerable to XMPPbomb attack

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2741, https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire/commit/3aec383e07ee893b77396fe946766bbd3758af77, https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire, 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, 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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: org.igniterealtime.openfire:parent

    Purl: pkg:maven/org.igniterealtime.openfire/parent

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.9.2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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