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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2021-32921)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202105-15 (Prosody IM: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Prosody IM. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

It was discovered that the previous upload of the package prosody versioned 0.9.12-2+deb9u3 introduced a regression in the mod_auth_internal_hashed module. Big thanks to Andre Bianchi for the reporting an issue and for testing the update.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 0.9.12-2+deb9u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your prosody packages.

For the detailed security status of prosody please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/prosody

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Multiple security issues were found in Prosody, a lightweight Jabber/XMPP server, which could result in denial of service or information disclosure.

The Prosody security advisory 2021-05-12 reports :

This advisory details 5 new security vulnerabilities discovered in the Prosody.im XMPP server software. All issues are fixed in the 0.11.9 release default configuration.

- CVE-2021-32918: DoS via insufficient memory consumption controls

- CVE-2021-32920: DoS via repeated TLS renegotiation causing excessive CPU consumption

- CVE-2021-32921: Use of timing-dependent string comparison with sensitive values

- CVE-2021-32917: Use of mod_proxy65 is unrestricted in default configuration

- CVE-2021-32919: Undocumented dialback-without-dialback option insecure

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255372	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-32921	Nessus	Misc.	medium
157035	GLSA-202105-15 : Prosody IM: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
150805	Debian DLA-2687-2 : prosody regression update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
149609	Debian DSA-4916-1 : prosody - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
149493	FreeBSD : Prosody -- multiple vulnerabilities (fc75570a-b417-11eb-a23d-c7ab331fd711)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high

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