VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-8086
This grants remote entities admin-only functionality if their username matches the username of a local admin.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.54%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.54%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The mod_auth_ldap and mod_auth_ldap2 Community Modules through 2020-01-27 for Prosody incompletely verify the XMPP address passed to the is_admin() function. This grants remote entities admin-only functionality if their username matches the username of a local admin.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.54% probability · 74th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-863
- Affected
- prosody/mod auth ldap · prosody/mod auth ldap2 · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.luaThird Party Advisory
- https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap2/mod_auth_ldap2.luaThird Party Advisory
- https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20200128/Vendor Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4612Third Party Advisory
- https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.luaThird Party Advisory
- https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap2/mod_auth_ldap2.luaThird Party Advisory
- https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20200128/Vendor Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4612Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.