CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-32921
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-05-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
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.
Affected configurations
• prosody prosody (< 0.11.9)
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• fedoraproject fedora 33
• fedoraproject fedora 34
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MFFBZWXKPZEVZNQSVJNCUE7WRF3T7DG/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUN63AHEWB2WRROJHU3BVJRWLONCT2B7/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWJ2DG2DFJOEFEWOUN26IMYYWGSA2ZEE/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-15 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4916 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MFFBZWXKPZEVZNQSVJNCUE7WRF3T7DG/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUN63AHEWB2WRROJHU3BVJRWLONCT2B7/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWJ2DG2DFJOEFEWOUN26IMYYWGSA2ZEE/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-15 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4916 Third Party Advisory