Prosody
CVE-2021-32918
HIGH
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Lifecycle Timeline
1DescriptionNVD
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.
AnalysisAI
An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.11.9. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
Technical ContextAI
This vulnerability is classified as Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400), which allows attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources. 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. Affected products include: Prosody, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora. Version information: before 0.11.9..
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Implement rate limiting, set resource quotas, validate input sizes, use timeouts.
plugins/mod_compression.lua in (1) Prosody before 0.9.4 and (2) Lightwitch Metronome through 3.4 negotiates stream compr
It was discovered that an internal Prosody library to load XML based on libexpat does not properly restrict the XML feat
muc.lib.lua in Prosody 0.11.0 through 0.11.9 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (list of admins, me
prosody before versions 0.10.2, 0.9.14 is vulnerable to an Authentication Bypass. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this v
Prosody before 0.9.4 does not properly restrict the processing of compressed XML elements, which allows remote attackers
The mod_dialback module in Prosody before 0.9.9 does not properly generate random values for the secret token for server
Prosody before 0.11.9 allows Uncontrolled CPU Consumption via a flood of SSL/TLS renegotiation requests. Rated high seve
An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.11.9. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploit
Unauthenticated traffic relay vulnerability in Prosody mod_proxy65 module allows network attackers to bypass access cont
Improper access control in Prosody's mod_proxy65 module allows unauthenticated relaying of traffic when the module enter
Directory traversal vulnerability in the HTTP file-serving module (mod_http_files) in Prosody 0.9.x before 0.9.9 allows
An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.11.9. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remotely explo
Same weakness CWE-400 – Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
View allSame technique Denial Of Service
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