CVE-2014-8764

DokuWiki <2014-05-05a - Auth Bypass

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (7)

[Third Party Advisory] http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0438.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/61983

[Various Sources] http://www.freelists.org/post/dokuwiki/Fwd-Dokuwiki-maybe-security-issue-Null-byte-poisoning-in-LDAP-authentication

[Issue Tracking] https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/pull/868

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3059

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/13/3

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/10/16/9

Scores

EPSS 0.0122

EPSS Percentile 78.9%

Classification

CWE

CWE-287

Status draft

Affected Products (3)

mageia_project/mageia

dokuwiki/dokuwiki < 2013-12-08

Timeline

Published Oct 22, 2014

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026