CVE-2020-26214
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-287
Authentication Issues
Publication date:
06/11/2020
Last modified:
17/11/2020
Description
In Alerta before version 8.1.0, users may be able to bypass LDAP authentication if they provide an empty password when Alerta server is configure to use LDAP as the authorization provider. Only deployments where LDAP servers are configured to allow unauthenticated authentication mechanism for anonymous authorization are affected. A fix has been implemented in version 8.1.0 that returns HTTP 401 Unauthorized response for any authentication attempts where the password field is empty. As a workaround LDAP administrators can disallow unauthenticated bind requests by clients.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
9.80
Severity 3.x
CRITICAL
Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:alerta_project:alerta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 7.5.7 (excluding) | |
| cpe:2.3:a:alerta_project:alerta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 8.0.0 (including) | 8.1.0 (excluding) |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://github.com/alerta/alerta/commit/2bfa31779a4c9df2fa68fa4d0c5c909698c5ef65
- https://github.com/alerta/alerta/issues/1277
- https://github.com/alerta/alerta/pull/1345
- https://github.com/alerta/alerta/security/advisories/GHSA-5hmm-x8q8-w5jh
- https://pypi.org/project/alerta-server/8.1.0/
- https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4513#section-5.1.2



