Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 13, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024
CVE-2021-32921
CVE-2021-32921
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.
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Affected products
2- Prosody/Prosodydescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
10- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MFFBZWXKPZEVZNQSVJNCUE7WRF3T7DG/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUN63AHEWB2WRROJHU3BVJRWLONCT2B7/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWJ2DG2DFJOEFEWOUN26IMYYWGSA2ZEE/mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4916mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1mitremailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2mitremailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released/mitrex_refsource_MISC
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00016.htmlmitremailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00018.htmlmitremailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-15mitrex_refsource_MISC
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