vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-4834-1 (CVE-2018-10847): Prosody vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jul 30, 2018 | Mar 22, 2023 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 30, 2018
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
Description
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.
Solution
ubuntu-pro-upgrade-prosody
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