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Vulnerability record · CVE-2018-10847 · published 30 July 2018

CVE-2018-10847: Prosody improper authentication vulnerability

Prosody · Prosody

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.

8.8 CVSS 3.0 High EPSS 1.7% · top 24.3% CWE-592 · CWE-592CWE-287 · Improper authentication
8.8CVSS 3.0 base score, v2 6.5
1.7%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
10References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2018-10847), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.