Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-2741

Title: Igniterealtime Openfire Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-2741.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Apr 11, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
3.77%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-2741: 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.

Impacted Vendors

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ignite_realtime 1
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igniterealtime 1

Reference Links

http://community.igniterealtime.org/thread/52317 http://fisheye.igniterealtime.org/changelog/openfiregit?cs=3aec383e07ee893b77396fe946766bbd3758af77 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 http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/ http://community.igniterealtime.org/thread/52317 http://fisheye.igniterealtime.org/changelog/openfiregit?cs=3aec383e07ee893b77396fe946766bbd3758af77 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 http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-2741 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.