CVE-2026-114230 (GCVE-0-2026-114230)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-29 10:19 – Updated: 2026-10-29 11:09
VLAI
Title
Apache Qpid Proton C: Potential authentication bypass: regular AMQP frames can be sent as SASL frames
Summary
When dispatching SASL frames to authenticate the peer, Proton will also dispatch AMQP frames if they claim to be SASL frames. This allows authentication bypass. However there will be no user name set so the effects depend on how the application deals with this condition - which otherwise means that authentication has not completed yet. This issue affects Apache Qpid Proton C: through 0.40.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.41.1, which fixes the issue.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-305 - Authentication bypass by primary weakness
Assigner
apache CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1076 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Qpid Proton C Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.40.0 (semver)
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