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CVE-2021-32921

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.

Published

2021-05-13T16:15:08.407

Last Modified

2024-11-21T06:07:55.843

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 5.9 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-362

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	prosody	prosody	< 0.11.9	Yes
Application	lua	lua	≥ 5.2.0	No
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	32	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	33	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	34	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	9.0	Yes

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MFFBZWXKPZEVZNQSVJNCUE7WRF3T7DG/ ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUN63AHEWB2WRROJHU3BVJRWLONCT2B7/ ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWJ2DG2DFJOEFEWOUN26IMYYWGSA2ZEE/ ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-15 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4916 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2 Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00018.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MFFBZWXKPZEVZNQSVJNCUE7WRF3T7DG/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUN63AHEWB2WRROJHU3BVJRWLONCT2B7/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWJ2DG2DFJOEFEWOUN26IMYYWGSA2ZEE/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-15 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4916 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)