CVE-2021-32918

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

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 5.3.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-32918

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202105-11

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1:0.11.9-1
debian debianbookwormfixed0.11.9-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.11.9-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.11.9-1
debian debiansidfixed0.11.9-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.11.9-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.