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High
CVE-2021-32918
An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.11.9. Default settings...
Vulnerability Description
An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.11.9. Default settings are susceptible to remote unauthenticated denial-of-service (DoS) attacks via memory exhaustion when running under Lua 5.2 or Lua 5.3.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4916
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MFFBZWXKPZEVZNQSVJNCUE7WRF3T7DG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWJ2DG2DFJOEFEWOUN26IMYYWGSA2ZEE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUN63AHEWB2WRROJHU3BVJRWLONCT2B7/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-15
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Affected Vendor
prosody
View all reports →Affected Software
prosody, debian linux, fedora
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 10.0, 32, 33, 34
Timeline
Official Publish:
May 13th, 2021
Last Modified:
August 3rd, 2024
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.