CVE-2021-32921
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-05-13 15:14
Modified
2024-08-03 23:33
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00018.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MFFBZWXKPZEVZNQSVJNCUE7WRF3T7DG/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUN63AHEWB2WRROJHU3BVJRWLONCT2B7/
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWJ2DG2DFJOEFEWOUN26IMYYWGSA2ZEE/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-15Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4916Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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