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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Advisories
Source | ID | Title |
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DLA-2687-1 | prosody security update |
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DLA-2687-2 | prosody regression update |
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DSA-4916-1 | prosody security update |
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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: 2024-08-03T23:33:56.162Z
Reserved: 2021-05-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-32921

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Status : Modified
Published: 2021-05-13T16:15:08.407
Modified: 2024-11-21T06:07:55.843
Link: CVE-2021-32921

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