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CVE-2011-2532

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2011-06-22 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The json.decode function in util/json.lua in Prosody 0.8.x before 0.8.1 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via invalid JSON data, as demonstrated by truncated data.

Affected products

• Prosody: 0.8.0

References

• http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
• http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/20979f124ad9
• http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1
• http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
• http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/20979f124ad9
• http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1

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