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.
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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.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.017 (76.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 76.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Prosody
- Debian Linux — versions 9.0
References
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4198 (Technical Description, vendor-advisory)
- hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9 (Patch)
- hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2a (Patch)
- prosody.im/issues/issue/987 (Vendor Advisory)
- bugs.debian.org/875829 (Mailing List, 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.