CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2167

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2016-05-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-05-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-284

Description

The canonicalize_username function in svnserve/cyrus_auth.c in Apache Subversion before 1.8.16 and 1.9.x before 1.9.4, when Cyrus SASL authentication is used, allows remote attackers to authenticate and bypass intended access restrictions via a realm string that is a prefix of an expected repository realm string.

Affected configurations

• apache subversion (<= 1.8.15) • apache subversion 1.9.0 • apache subversion 1.9.1 • apache subversion 1.9.2 • apache subversion 1.9.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References