🛡️ CVE-2014-2829 — mongooseim

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-770 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Erlang Solutions MongooseIM vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) via crafted XMPP stream

Erlang Solutions MongooseIM through 1.3.1 rev. 2 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a crafted XMPP stream, aka an "xmppbomb" attack.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2014-2829 is classified as CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Resources are allocated on request with no cap, so a client can exhaust them.

Affected software

CVE-2014-2829 is recorded against 1 package.

  • mongooseim

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 10 December 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
xmpp.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-770
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-12-10
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
mongooseim — —

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