CVE-2014-8764

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% 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 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.

Affected products

DokuWiki: through 2013-12-08
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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