CVE-2021-32921

Published May 13, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 Medium EPSS 1.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2687-1 prosody security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2687-2 prosody regression update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4916-1 prosody security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-19643 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 11:33 PM
Reserved
May 12, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 13, 2021, 4:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:53 AM