CVE-2018-10847
Publication date 30 July 2018
Last updated 26 August 2025
Ubuntu priority
Cvss 3 Severity Score
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.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| prosody | 25.10 questing |
Not affected
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| 25.04 plucky |
Not affected
|
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| 24.04 LTS noble |
Not affected
|
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| 22.04 LTS jammy |
Not affected
|
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| 20.04 LTS focal |
Not affected
|
|
| 18.04 LTS bionic |
Fixed 0.10.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
|
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| 16.04 LTS xenial |
Vulnerable
|
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| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
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| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score |
|
| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | High |
| Privileges required | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | Low |
| Integrity impact | Low |
| Availability impact | None |
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References
Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)
- USN-4834-1
- Prosody vulnerability
- 15 March 2021