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Improper Authentication in InfluxDB

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 18, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 2, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/influxdata/influxdb (Go)

Affected versions

< 1.7.6

Patched versions

1.7.6

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).

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 19, 2020
Reviewed May 12, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 18, 2021
Last updated Oct 2, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-20933

GHSA ID

GHSA-2rmp-fw5r-j5qv

Source code

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