Improper Authentication Affecting prosody package, versions <0.9.12-2+deb9u2
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- published27 Jun 2018
- disclosed30 Jul 2018
Introduced: 27 Jun 2018
CVE-2018-10847 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9 prosody to version 0.9.12-2+deb9u2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream prosody package and not the prosody package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
prosody before versions 0.10.2, 0.9.14 is vulnerable to an Authentication Bypass. Prosody did not verify that the virtual host associated with a user session remained the same across stream restarts. A user may authenticate to XMPP host A and migrate their authenticated session to XMPP host B of the same Prosody instance.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10847
- https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-10-2-security-release/
- https://issues.prosody.im/1147
- https://prosody.im/security/advisory_20180531/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10847
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4216
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10847
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-10847