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.

Risk Information

Base Score

5.9

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

3.802

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
prosody security update(DSA-4916-1) prosody_0.11.2-1+deb10u1_amd64.deb	Linux
prosody security update(DSA-4916-1) prosody_0.11.2-1+deb10u1_i386.deb	Linux
prosody security update(DSA-4916-1) Debian_prosody_0.11.2-1+deb10u1_amd64.deb	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234