CVE-2018-10847
prosody before versions 0.10.2, 0.9.14 is vulnerable to an Authentication Bypass.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.59%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.59% probability · 76th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-592, CWE-287
- Affected
- prosody/prosody
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 1.6% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-10-2-security-release/Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10847Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://issues.prosody.im/1147Vendor Advisory
- https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20180531/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4216Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-10-2-security-release/Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10847Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://issues.prosody.im/1147Vendor Advisory
- https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20180531/Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4216Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.