CVE-2020-8086
CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: January 28, 2020 at 04:15 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:25 AM UTC
3 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxMod Auth LDAPMod Auth LDAP2
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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (5)
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.luax_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap2/mod_auth_ldap2.luax_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20200128/Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/5Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4612CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-863
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