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CVE-2021-32920
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2021-05-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Description
Prosody before 0.11.9 allows Uncontrolled CPU Consumption via a flood of SSL/TLS renegotiation requests.
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 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.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/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6MFFBZWXKPZEVZNQSVJNCUE7WRF3T7DG/
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