id: CVE-2020-26214 info: name: Alerta < 8.1.0 - Authentication Bypass author: CasperGN,daffainfo severity: critical description: Alerta prior to version 8.1.0 is prone to authentication bypass when using LDAP as an authorization provider and the LDAP server accepts Unauthenticated Bind requests. impact: | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to Alerta. remediation: | Upgrade Alerta to version 8.1.0 or later to mitigate this vulnerability. reference: - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5hmm-x8q8-w5jh - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4513#section-5.1.2 - https://pypi.org/project/alerta-server/8.1.0/ - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26214 - https://github.com/alerta/alerta/commit/2bfa31779a4c9df2fa68fa4d0c5c909698c5ef65 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H cvss-score: 9.8 cve-id: CVE-2020-26214 cwe-id: CWE-287 epss-score: 0.01546 epss-percentile: 0.85739 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:alerta_project:alerta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* metadata: max-request: 1 vendor: alerta_project product: alerta tags: cve,cve2020,alerta,auth-bypass,alerta_project http: - method: GET path: - '{{BaseURL}}/api/config' matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: dsl dsl: - compare_versions(version, '< 8.1.0') - type: word part: body words: - '"alarm_model"' - '"actions"' - '"severity"' condition: and - type: status status: - 200 extractors: - type: regex name: version group: 1 regex: - '"name": "Alerta ([0-9.]+)"' internal: true - type: regex group: 1 regex: - '"name": "Alerta ([0-9.]+)"' # digest: 4a0a00473045022100e204bd9385cf6b58f653e6b232edefbe1ce420d88afa77870717ebc626d8a2ea022067167ad2a0440c6d8e17db9ad35d149a90e5b289ee02d11bcaf428a2b3af61cf:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950