CVE-2020-8086 (GCVE-0-2020-8086)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-28 16:15 – Updated: 2024-08-04 09:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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| https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20200128/ | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4612 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/5 | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
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