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CVE-2014-8760
ejabberd before 2.1.13 does not enforce the starttls_required setting when compression is used, which causes clients to establish…
Medium5.0EPSS 1.3%
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Description
ejabberd before 2.1.13 does not enforce the starttls_required setting when compression is used, which causes clients to establish connections without encryption.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (8)
- [oss-security] 20141013 CVE request: ejabberd compression allows cirucumvention of encryption despite starttls_required (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [Operators] 20141013 ejabberd: compression allows circumvention of encryption (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0417.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/commit/7bdc1151b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153839 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- MDVSA-2014:207 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 70415 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MDVSA-2015:175 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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