CVE-2021-32918

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Se detectó un problema en Prosody versiones anteriores a 0.11.9. La configuración predeterminada es susceptible a ataques remotos de denegación de servicio (DoS) no autenticados por medio del agotamiento de la memoria cuando se ejecuta bajo Lua versiones 5.2 o Lua 5.3

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2021-05-12 CVE Reserved
2021-05-13 CVE Published
2024-06-15 EPSS Updated
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CAPEC

References (8)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1	Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2	Mailing List
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-15	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MFFBZWXKPZEVZNQSVJNCUE7WRF3T7DG	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUN63AHEWB2WRROJHU3BVJRWLONCT2B7	2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWJ2DG2DFJOEFEWOUN26IMYYWGSA2ZEE	2023-11-07
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4916	2023-11-07

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Prosody Search vendor "Prosody"	Prosody Search vendor "Prosody" for product "Prosody"	< 0.11.9 Search vendor "Prosody" for product "Prosody" and version " < 0.11.9"	-	Affected	in	Lua Search vendor "Lua"	Lua Search vendor "Lua" for product "Lua"	5.2.0 Search vendor "Lua" for product "Lua" and version "5.2.0"	-	Safe
Prosody Search vendor "Prosody"	Prosody Search vendor "Prosody" for product "Prosody"	< 0.11.9 Search vendor "Prosody" for product "Prosody" and version " < 0.11.9"	-	Affected	in	Lua Search vendor "Lua"	Lua Search vendor "Lua" for product "Lua"	5.3.0 Search vendor "Lua" for product "Lua" and version "5.3.0"	-	Safe
Debian Search vendor "Debian"		Debian Linux Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux"				10.0 Search vendor "Debian" for product "Debian Linux" and version "10.0"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				32 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "32"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				33 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "33"		-		Affected
Fedoraproject Search vendor "Fedoraproject"		Fedora Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora"				34 Search vendor "Fedoraproject" for product "Fedora" and version "34"		-		Affected