CVE-2021-32918
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
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.11% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-05-13 15:11Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 23:33Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-05-12
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- dd86f0cacaa715b15110d65a7f4034e1dfd141469bda51ef8b1071c282df3f71
05 Affected products
06 References
- blog.prosody.imhttps://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released/
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20210513 Prosody XMPP server advisory 2021-05-12 (multiple vulnerabilities)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20210514 Re: Prosody XMPP server advisory 2021-05-12 (multiple vulnerabilities)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2
- www.debian.orgDSA-4916https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4916
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-b5d8c6d086https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MFFBZWXKPZEVZNQSVJNCUE7WRF3T7DG/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-a33f6e36e1https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWJ2DG2DFJOEFEWOUN26IMYYWGSA2ZEE/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-498be8f560https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUN63AHEWB2WRROJHU3BVJRWLONCT2B7/
- security.gentoo.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-15
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- prosody Fixed in 1:0.11.9-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- prosody Fixed in 0.11.9-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- prosody Fixed in 0.11.9-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- prosody Fixed in 0.11.9-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- prosody No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- prosody No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- prosody No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- prosody No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.