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FreeBSD: VID-FC75570A-B417-11EB-A23D-C7AB331FD711 (CVE-2021-32921): Prosody -- multiple vulnerabilities

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FreeBSD: VID-FC75570A-B417-11EB-A23D-C7AB331FD711 (CVE-2021-32921): Prosody -- multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/12/2021
Created
11/08/2022
Added
11/04/2022
Modified
11/04/2022

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(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-prosody

References

  • CVE-2021-32921

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