CVE-2021-32917

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-05-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.11.9. The proxy65 component allows open access by default, even if neither of the users has an XMPP account on the local server, allowing unrestricted use of the server's bandwidth.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33, 34
Prosody: before 0.11.9 — fixed in 0.11.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Prosody 0.11.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2
https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00016.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MFFBZWXKPZEVZNQSVJNCUE7WRF3T7DG/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GUN63AHEWB2WRROJHU3BVJRWLONCT2B7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LWJ2DG2DFJOEFEWOUN26IMYYWGSA2ZEE/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-15
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4916
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/13/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/14/2
https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.9-released/

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