CVE-2014-8763

Summary

CVECVE-2014-8763
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-10-22 14:55:00 UTC
Updated2016-07-15 15:19:00 UTC
DescriptionDokuWiki before 2014-05-05b, when using Active Directory for LDAP authentication, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a password starting with a null (\0) character and a valid user name, which triggers an unauthenticated bind.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-287

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Dokuwiki Dokuwiki All All All All
Operating System Mageia Project Mageia 3.0 All All All
Operating System Mageia Project Mageia 4.0 All All All
Operating System Mageia Project Mageia 3.0 All All All
Operating System Mageia Project Mageia 4.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[dokuwiki] Fwd: Dokuwiki (maybe) security issue: Null byte poisoning in LDAP authentication - dokuwiki - FreeLists MLIST www.freelists.org
clean user credentials from control chars by splitbrain · Pull Request #868 · splitbrain/dokuwiki · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3059-1 dokuwiki DEBIAN www.debian.org
oss-security - Re: CVE request: various security flaws in dokuwiki MLIST www.openwall.com
oss-security - CVE request: various security flaws in dokuwiki MLIST www.openwall.com
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2014-0438 - Updated dokuwiki packages fix security vulnerabilities CONFIRM advisories.mageia.org
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