CVE-2014-8763
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CVE-2014-8763
Published: 22 Oct 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
Summary:
Details: 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.
References: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0438.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/61983, http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3059, https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/pull/868, 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
Affected packages
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
