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CVE-2014-8760 json

ejabberd before 2.1.13 does not enforce the starttls_required setting when compression is used, which causes clients to establish connectio…

published 2014-10-25 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-8591

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ejabberd before 2.1.13 does not enforce the starttls_required setting when compression is used, which causes clients to establish connections without encryption.

Patch / fix

  • ejabberd Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 14.07-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8760

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-8760 updated cvss 5.8

ejabberd: clients can unexpectedly connect without encryption

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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