CVE-2014-8763
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.5%EU EUVD
DokuWiki before 2014-05-05b, when using Active Directory for LDAP authentication, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a password starting with a null (\0) character and a valid user name, which triggers an unauthenticated bind.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-287
- EPSS score
- 2.5% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-8594)
- Published
- October 22, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-8594 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- dokuwiki / dokuwiki
- mageia project / mageia
- mageia project / mageia
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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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