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CVE-2021-32921
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-05-13T16:15:08.407 · Last modified 2026-06-17T03:53:48.247

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.

Affected products

prosody — prosody

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References

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