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CVE-2019-20933

influxdb: authentication bypass because a JWT token may have an empty SharedSecret

Published Modified CWE 287
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA, Photon OS. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

InfluxDB before 1.7.6 has an authentication bypass vulnerability in the authenticate function in services/httpd/handler.go because a JWT token may have an empty SharedSecret (aka shared secret).

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
go::GitHub Security Advisory Gogithub.com/influxdata/influxdb1.7.6
Photon OS 2.0influxdb1.6.0-6.ph2
Photon OS 3.0influxdb1.6.0-10.ph3
Photon OS 5.0kapacitor1.6.6-1.ph5
debian 10influxdb1.6.4-1+deb10u1
debian 11influxdb1.6.7~rc0-1
debian 12influxdb1.6.7~rc0-1
debian 13influxdb1.6.7~rc0-1
debian 14influxdb1.6.7~rc0-1
debian 9influxdb1.1.1+dfsg1-4+deb9u1
echoinfluxdb1.6.7~rc0-1
ubuntu 18.04influxdb1.1.1+dfsg1-4+deb9u1ubuntu1
Show all 18 entries from 18 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
go::GitHub Security Advisory Gogithub.com/influxdata/influxdb1.7.6
Photon OS 2.0influxdb1.6.0-6.ph2
Photon OS 3.0influxdb1.6.0-10.ph3
Photon OS 5.0kapacitor1.6.6-1.ph5
debian 10influxdb1.6.4-1+deb10u1
debian 11influxdb1.6.7~rc0-1
debian 12influxdb1.6.7~rc0-1
debian 13influxdb1.6.7~rc0-1
debian 14influxdb1.6.7~rc0-1
debian 9influxdb1.1.1+dfsg1-4+deb9u1
echoinfluxdb1.6.7~rc0-1
ubuntu 18.04influxdb1.1.1+dfsg1-4+deb9u1ubuntu1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMinfluxdb1.1.1+dfsg1-4+deb9u1ubuntu1
ubuntu 20.04influxdb1.6.4-1+deb10u1build0.20.04.1
ubuntu 20.04-ESMinfluxdb1.6.4-1+deb10u1build0.20.04.1
ubuntu 21.04influxdb1.6.7~rc0-1
ubuntu 21.10influxdb1.6.7~rc0-1
ubuntu 22.04influxdb1.6.7~rc0-1

References

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