CVE-2018-10847 (GCVE-0-2018-10847)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-30 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 07:46
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
prosody before versions 0.10.2, 0.9.14 is vulnerable to an Authentication Bypass. Prosody did not verify that the virtual host associated with a user session remained the same across stream restarts. A user may authenticate to XMPP host A and migrate their authenticated session to XMPP host B of the same Prosody instance.
Severity
4.2 (Medium)
CWE
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://issues.prosody.im/1147 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-10-2-security-r… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4216 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20180531/ | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
Date Public
2018-05-31 00:00
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