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CVE-2016-2167

Public on 2016-05-05
Modified on 2016-06-03
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.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 mod_dav_svn 2016-06-02 18:09 ALAS-2016-710
Amazon Linux 1 subversion 2016-06-02 18:08 ALAS-2016-709

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 3.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.9 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 6.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N