CVE-2014-2745: Prosody

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Prosody Prosody: up to and including 0.9.3; version 0.1.0 only; version 0.2.0 only; version 0.3.0 only; version 0.4.0 only; version 0.4.1 only; …

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