CVE-2018-10847
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.59% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 75.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-07-30 16:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 07:46Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-05-09
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 4.2)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e8ab91b782772a25b991366a9bfca95d7ad5c989f026c36f1b8d9f2c3a9ec5c6
05 Affected products
06 References
- issues.prosody.imhttps://issues.prosody.im/1147
- blog.prosody.imhttps://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-10-2-security-release/
- www.debian.orgDSA-4216https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4216
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10847
- prosody.imhttps://prosody.im/security/advisory_20180531/
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- prosody Fixed in 0.10.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- prosody Fixed in 0.10.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- prosody Fixed in 0.10.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- prosody No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- prosody Fixed in 0.10.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.