CVE-2014-8763
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
DokuWiki before 2014-05-05b, when using Active Directory for LDAP authentication, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a password starting with a null (\0) character and a valid user name, which triggers an unauthenticated bind.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0.0.20140929.a-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0.0.20140929.a-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0.0.20140929.a-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0.0.20140929.a-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0.0.20140929.a-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| dokuwiki | dokuwiki | {"endIncluding":"2014-05-05a"} | |
References
- 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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8763
CWEs
CWE-287
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.