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CVE-2020-8086

The mod_auth_ldap and mod_auth_ldap2 Community Modules through 2020-01 ...

Published Modified CWE 863
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

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 10prosody-modules0.0~hg20190203.b54e98d5c4a1+dfsg-1+deb10u1
debian 11prosody-modules0.0~hg20200128.09e7e880e056+dfsg-1
debian 12prosody-modules0.0~hg20200128.09e7e880e056+dfsg-1
debian 13prosody-modules0.0~hg20200128.09e7e880e056+dfsg-1
debian 14prosody-modules0.0~hg20200128.09e7e880e056+dfsg-1
debian 9prosody-modules0.0~hg20170123.3ed504b944e5+dfsg-1+deb9u1
echoprosody-modules0.0~hg20200128.09e7e880e056+dfsg-1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMprosody-modulesno fix listed

References

Vulnerability data compiled from the Trivy vulnerability database (trivy-db, Aqua Security, Apache License 2.0), which aggregates third-party advisories. CVE records are published by The MITRE Corporation under the CVE Terms of Use; CVE is a trademark of MITRE. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Severity, titles and advisory data from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0), Red Hat security data (CC BY 4.0) and the other sources linked on each entry. Entries may be summarised or re-formatted; the linked original is the authoritative record.