Vulnerability in Prosody
CVE-2017-18265
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.
EPSS: 0.017 (75.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Prosody
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 9.0
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Technical Description, vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Mailing List, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2017-18265?
- CVE-2017-18265 is a high-severity vulnerability in Prosody. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-05-09.
- How severe is CVE-2017-18265?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.