Authentication Bypass Affecting alerta-server package, versions [,7.5.7)[8.0.0,8.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
3.4% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ALERTASERVER-1038248
  • published8 Nov 2020
  • disclosed6 Nov 2020
  • creditCasper Nielsen

Introduced: 6 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-26214  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-287  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade alerta-server to version 7.5.7, 8.1.0 or higher.

Overview

alerta-server is an Alerta server WSGI application

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass. Users may be able to bypass LDAP authentication if they provide an empty password when Alerta server is configure to use LDAP as the authorization provider.

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