CVE-2014-8764 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

DokuWiki 2014-05-05a and earlier, when using Active Directory for LDAP authentication, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a user name and password starting with a null (\0) character, which triggers an anonymous bind.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01224.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Dokuwiki Subscribe	Dokuwiki Subscribe
Mageia Project Subscribe	Mageia Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:mageia_project:mageia:3.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:mageia_project:mageia:4.0:::::::*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:dokuwiki:dokuwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-79-1	dokuwiki security update
Debian DSA	DSA-3059-1	dokuwiki security update
EUVD	EUVD-2014-8595	DokuWiki 2014-05-05a and earlier, when using Active Directory for LDAP authentication, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a user name and password starting with a null (\0) character, which triggers an anonymous bind.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0438.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61983
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3059
http://www.freelists.org/post/dokuwiki/Fwd-Dokuwiki-maybe-security-issue-Null-byte-poisoning-in-LDAP-authentication
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/13/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/16/9
https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/pull/868

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2014-10-22T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:26:02.463Z

Reserved: 2014-10-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-8764

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2014-10-22T14:55:08.420

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2014-8764

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-287

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