CVE-2014-8760

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

Published: 2014-10-25 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-8760 is rated Low Risk (38.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.34%). Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-8760

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 0.66% 0.34% -0.32%
2 2025-03-29 0.28% 0.66% +0.38%
3 2023-03-07 — 0.28% —

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-8760

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-8760

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-8760

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2014-8760 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ejabberd), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8760
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-8760 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ejabberd), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 8, not-affected 4, DNE 1, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8760

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-8760

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
process-one ejabberd <= 2.1.12 cpe:2.3:a:process-one:ejabberd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-8760

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