CVE-2021-32918

Published: 13 May 2021

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.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
prosody Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needed
	focal	Needed
	groovy	Ignored (end of life)
	hirsute	Ignored (end of life)
	impish	Ignored (end of life)
	jammy	Needed
	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needed)
	lunar	Not vulnerable (0.12.1-1)
	mantic	Not vulnerable (0.12.1-1)
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (0.11.9)
	xenial	Needs triage

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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