CVEs-PoC/2021/CVE-2021-32921.md

CVE-2021-32921

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cve-scores