CVE-2014-8763

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-10-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

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.

Affected products

DokuWiki: through 2014-05-05a
Mageia Project Mageia: 3.0, 4.0

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0438.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61983
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3059
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
https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/pull/868
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0438.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61983
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3059
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

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