CVE-2021-32921

mediumpriority · track · 25EPSS 0.016 · 76 %ileEURUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.60% (76th) EPSS
CVSS 4.3 · medium
Is it mine?
10 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
4 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.9
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9
v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.6
v3.15.9mediumAV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
v3.15.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-362USprimaryCWE-362US
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affected products (10)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

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also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

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sources

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cnnvdenisa_euvdfstec_bdunvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2021-05-13modified 2026-06-17
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references (37)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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