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CVE-2017-18265

Published: May 9, 2018Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVDNVD-CWE-noinfo
NVD MITRE
7.5CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
1.7%
Top 25.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Prosody before 0.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), related to an incompatibility with certain versions of the LuaSocket library, such as the lua-socket package from Debian stretch. The attacker needs to trigger a stream error. A crash can be observed in, for example, the c2s module.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

n/an/a
prosodyprosody
On-prem
Communications / messaging-chat
debian linuxdebian
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
prosodyoss-projectCommunicationsaka mod auth ldap, mod auth ldap2
debianoss-projectGBOperating Systemsaka debian gnu/linux

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4198
debian.org
https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9
hg.prosody.im
https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2a
hg.prosody.im
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Timeline

Published
May 9, 2018
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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