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.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| prosody / prosody | - | 0.11.9 |
| fedoraproject / fedora | 32 | 32.x |
| fedoraproject / fedora | 33 | 33.x |
| fedoraproject / fedora | 34 | 34.x |
| debian / debian_linux | 9.0 | 9.0.x |