CVE-2020-8086 Information

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 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.lua https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap2/mod_auth_ldap2.lua https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20200128/ https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/5 https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4612

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8