Advisory record · GHSA-6pwg-gg6j-5crm

Ignite Realtime Openfire privilege escalation vulnerability

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.017 · 76th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 26 Mar 2024, 21:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.igniterealtime.openfire:xmppserverMaven<4.8.14.8.1
Identifiers
GHSA-6pwg-gg6j-5crm · CVE-2024-25421
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-250 · CWE-863
Published
26 Mar 2024
Updated
7 Dec 2024

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Ignite Realtime Openfire (org.igniterealtime.openfire:xmppserver) versions before 4.8.1 are affected. A remote attacker can escalate privileges through the ROOM_CACHE component. The source gives few details about the required access or the exact impact. Upgrade to version 4.8.1 or later.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H ADP (CISA-ADP)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.017, the 76th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:12 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:12 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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