Description
An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.12.6 and 1.0.0 through 13.0.0 before 13.0.5. A Denial of Service can occur via memory exhaustion caused by memory leaks from unauthenticated connections.
Affected products
prosody: prosody
References2
- prosody.im/security/advisory_735dd9d3/ MitigationPatchVendor Advisory
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/01/5 Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.5
HIGH
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 21 · as of 13 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-401
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