{"id":"CVE-2020-8086","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-8086","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:24:23.899Z","title":"This grants remote entities admin-only functionality if their username matches the username of a local admin.","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.","published":"2020-01-28T17:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:25:50.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-863"],"affected":["prosody/mod auth ldap","prosody/mod auth ldap2","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.01557,"percentile":0.75018,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.56%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.lua","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap2/mod_auth_ldap2.lua","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20200128/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/5","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4612","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.lua","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap2/mod_auth_ldap2.lua","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20200128/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/5","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4612","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8086","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}