CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-8086
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-01-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
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.
Affected configurations
• prosody mod auth ldap (<= 2020-01-27)
• prosody mod auth ldap2 (<= 2020-01-27)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.lua Third Party Advisory
- https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap2/mod_auth_ldap2.lua Third Party Advisory
- https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20200128/ Vendor Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4612 Third Party Advisory
- https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.lua Third Party Advisory
- https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap2/mod_auth_ldap2.lua Third Party Advisory
- https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20200128/ Vendor Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4612 Third Party Advisory