CVE-2014-8764

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    CVE-2014-8764

    Published: 22 Oct 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: DokuWiki 2014-05-05a and earlier, when using Active Directory for LDAP authentication, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a user name and password starting with a null (\0) character, which triggers an anonymous 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
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