FKIE_CVE-2020-8086

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-01-28 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:25
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.luaThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap2/mod_auth_ldap2.luaThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://prosody.im/security/advisory_20200128/Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4612Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.luaThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://hg.prosody.im/prosody-modules/log/tip/mod_auth_ldap2/mod_auth_ldap2.luaThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20200128/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4612Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
prosody mod_auth_ldap *
prosody mod_auth_ldap2 *
debian debian_linux 9.0
debian debian_linux 10.0
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T03:25:50.263",
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