Ignite Realtime Openfire vulnerable to XMPPbomb attack
Date: 2022-05
Affected: maven/org.igniterealtime.openfire:parent
Attack vector: dos
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2014-2741
CWE: CWE-400

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.


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