Vulnerability · Published Jan 28, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-8086
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity security flaw in the prosody-modules package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.6% (higher than 75% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)1.6%top 24.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official 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 packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | prosody-modules | 0.0~hg20200128.09e7e880e056+dfsg-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8086 |
| Debian:13 | prosody-modules | 0.0~hg20200128.09e7e880e056+dfsg-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8086 |
| Debian:14 | prosody-modules | 0.0~hg20200128.09e7e880e056+dfsg-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8086 |
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.lua x_refsource_MISC
- https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap2/mod_auth_ldap2.lua x_refsource_MISC
- https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20200128/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
- DSA-4612 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
- 20200203 [SECURITY] [DSA 4612-1] prosody-modules security update mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ