High severity · published May 9, 2018
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…
7.5
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 77% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
PR
Prosody · Prosody
before 0.10.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18265
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18265
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.debian.org/875829
Patch
https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9
Patch
https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2a
Vendor Advisory
https://prosody.im/issues/issue/987
Technical Description
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4198
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