QID 983216

QID 983216: Python (pip) Security Update for alerta-server (GHSA-5hmm-x8q8-w5jh)

Security update has been released for alerta-server to fix the vulnerability.

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Users may be able to bypass LDAP authentication if they provide an empty password when Alerta server is configure to use LDAP as the authorization provider.

Only deployments where LDAP servers are configured to allow unauthenticated binds (eg. default on Active Directory) are affected.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 9.8 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.

Solution

A fix has been implemented that returns HTTP 401 Unauthorized response for any authentication attempts where the password field is empty. See https://github.com/alerta/alerta/pull/1345Workaround:
LDAP administrators can disallow unauthenticated bind requests by clients.

Vendor References

GHSA-5hmm-x8q8-w5jh - github.com/advisories/GHSA-5hmm-x8q8-w5jh

CVEs related to QID 983216

CVE-2020-26214 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
GHSA-5hmm-x8q8-w5jh	alerta-server		github.com/advisories/GHSA-5hmm-x8q8-w5jh

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