Erlang Solutions MongooseIM vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) via crafted XMPP stream
Date: 2022-05
Affected: erlang/MongooseIM
Attack vector: dos
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2014-2829
CWE: CWE-770

Erlang Solutions MongooseIM through 1.3.1 rev. 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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