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CVE-2021-32921
published 2021-05-13

CVE-2021-32921: An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.11.9. It does not use a constant-time algorithm for comparing certain secret strings when running under Lua 5.2 or…

PriorityP333medium5.9CVSS 3.1
AVNACHPRNUINSUCHINAN
EPSS
1.60%
73.4th percentile
An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.11.9. It does not use a constant-time algorithm for comparing certain secret strings when running under Lua 5.2 or later. This can potentially be used in a timing attack to reveal the contents of secret strings to an attacker.

Affected

11 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiandebian_linux
debianprosody< prosody 0.11.9-1 (bookworm)prosody 0.11.9-1 (bookworm)
fedoraprojectfedora
fedoraprojectfedora
fedoraprojectfedora
paloaltocortex_xdr
prosodyprosody< 0.11.90.11.9
prosodyprosody>= 0 < 0.11.9-10.11.9-1
prosodyprosody>= 0 < 0.11.9-10.11.9-1
prosodyprosody>= 0 < 0.11.9-10.11.9-1
prosodyprosody>= 0 < 0.11.9-10.11.9-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.9MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
osv5.9MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.9MEDIUM
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