CVE-2016-2167

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The canonicalize_username function in svnserve/cyrus_auth.c in Apache Subversion before 1.8.16 and 1.9.x before 1.9.4, when Cyrus SASL authentication is used, allows remote attackers to authenticate and bypass intended access restrictions via a realm string that is a prefix of an expected repository realm string.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Subversion: through 1.8.15; 1.9.0, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184545.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00043.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00044.html
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-announce/201604.mbox/%3CCAP_GPNgJet+7_MAhomFVOXPgLtewcUw9w=k9zdPCkq5tvPxVMA%40mail.gmail.com%3E
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-announce/201604.mbox/%3CCAP_GPNgfn1iKueW51EpmXzXi_URNfGNofZSgOyW1_jnSeNm5DQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
http://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-2167-advisory.txt
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3561
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89417
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035706
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.417496
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-05
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

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