CVE-2011-2532

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

Publication date:

22/06/2011

Last modified:

11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.8.0:::::::*

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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