CVE-2020-8086

CRITICAL

Prosody mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20200128/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4612
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/5

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0156
EPSS Percentile 72.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-863
Status published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
prosody/mod_auth_ldap < 2020-01-27
prosody/mod_auth_ldap2 < 2020-01-27
Published Jan 28, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026