Security Advisory

CVE-2021-32921

5.9
MEDIUM

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date May 13, 2021
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory