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CVE-2017-18265

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.73%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-05-09 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. It affects Debian. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2017-18265
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.73%
Debian

Original NVD Description

Prosody before 0.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), related to an incompatibility with certain versions of the LuaSocket library, such as the lua-socket package from Debian stretch. The attacker needs to trigger a stream error. A crash can be observed in, for example, the c2s module.

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