vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-32921: Race Condition
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | May 13, 2021 | Aug 22, 2024 | Jun 18, 2026 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 13, 2021
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026
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.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-prosody
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