muc.lib.lua in Prosody 0.11.0 through 0.11.9 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (list of admins, members, owners, and banned entities of a Multi-User chat room) in some common configurations.

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

  - muc.lib.lua in Prosody 0.11.0 through 0.11.9 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (list     of admins, members, owners, and banned entities of a Multi-User chat room) in some common configurations.
    (CVE-2021-37601)

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

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - muc.lib.lua in Prosody 0.11.0 through 0.11.9 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (list
    of admins, members, owners, and banned entities of a Multi-User chat room) in some common configurations.
    (CVE-2021-37601)

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:1173-1 advisory.

  - muc.lib.lua in Prosody 0.11.0 through 0.11.9 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (list     of admins, members, owners, and banned entities of a Multi-User chat room) in some common configurations.
    (CVE-2021-37601)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

A Prosody XMPP server advisory reports :

It was discovered that Prosody allows any entity to access the list of admins, members, owners and banned entities of any federated XMPP group chat of which they know the address.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
259507	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-37601	Nessus	Misc.	high
406587	Alpine: multiple prosody packages: security update to 0.11.10-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
406587	Alpine: multiple prosody packages: security update to 0.11.10-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
400174	Alpine: multiple prosody packages: security update to 0.11.9-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
400174	Alpine: multiple prosody packages: security update to 0.11.9-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
152719	openSUSE 15 Security Update : prosody (openSUSE-SU-2021:1173-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
152226	FreeBSD : Prosody -- Remote Information Disclosure (5ef14250-f47c-11eb-8f13-5b4de959822e)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2021-37601

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Tenable Plugins

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