CVE-2015-8748

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Radicale before 1.1 allows remote authenticated users to bypass owner_write and owner_only limitations via regex metacharacters in the user name, as demonstrated by ".*".

Affected products

Radicale: through 1.0.1

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175738.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175776.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3462
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/05/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/06/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80255
https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/pull/341
https://github.com/Unrud/Radicale/commit/4bfe7c9f7991d534c8b9fbe153af9d341f925f98
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175738.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175776.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3462
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/05/7

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