UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10847

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10847

    Published: 30 Jul 2018Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-10847
    Aliases:
    USN-4834-1

    Summary:

    Details: prosody before versions 0.10.2, 0.9.14 is vulnerable to an Authentication Bypass. Prosody did not verify that the virtual host associated with a user session remained the same across stream restarts. A user may authenticate to XMPP host A and migrate their authenticated session to XMPP host B of the same Prosody instance.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-10847, https://issues.prosody.im/1147, https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-10-2-security-release/, https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20180531/issue1147-0.10.1.patch, https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20180531/issue1147-0.9.patch, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4834-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10847

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: prosody

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.9.8-1
    0.9.9-1
    0.9.10-1

    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