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Ubuntu: USN-4834-1 (CVE-2018-10847): Prosody vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4834-1 (CVE-2018-10847): Prosody vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/30/2018
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-prosody

References

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