Erlang Solutions MongooseIM vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) via crafted XMPP stream
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 27, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Apr 11, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Reviewed
Jul 1, 2022
Last updated
Jan 27, 2023
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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