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.
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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cve-icon MITRE

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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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-05-13T16:15:08.407

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:07:55.843

Link: CVE-2021-32921

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