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CVE-2014-2746
net/IOService.java in Tigase before 5.2.1 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements, which allows remote…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 3.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
net/IOService.java in Tigase before 5.2.1 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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- http://xmpp.org/resources/security-notices/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-with-highly-compressed-xmpp-stanzas/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.tigase.org/content/uncontrolled-resource-consumption-highly-compressed-xmpp-messages (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://projects.tigase.org/issues/1780 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140408 Re: (Openfire M-Link Metronome Prosody Tigase) Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://projects.tigase.org/projects/tigase-server/repository/revisions/7f5af2f8c5b97bbf9def66fbb9dd47746a7ac292 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140407 Re: Possible CVE Request: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption with XMPP-Layer Compression (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-2773 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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