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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…
High7.5EPSS 1.7%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (5)
- DSA-4198 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/176b7f4e4ac9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://hg.prosody.im/0.9/rev/adfffc5b4e2a (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://prosody.im/issues/issue/987 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/875829 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
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