CVE-2014-2743: Lightwitch Metronome

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

plugins/mod_compression.lua in Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 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.

Affected products

• Lightwitch Metronome: up to and including 3.4

Published 2014-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.