Authentication Bypass Affecting borgbackup package, versions [,1.0.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-BORGBACKUP-40370
  • published11 Dec 2016
  • disclosed11 Dec 2016
  • creditMarian Beermann

Introduced: 11 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-10099  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-290  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

borgbackup is a backup tool.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by Spoofing the list of Archives. Borg (aka BorgBackup) before 1.0.9 has a flaw in the cryptographic protocol used to authenticate the manifest (list of archives), potentially allowing an attacker to spoof the list of archives.

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