| Title | Alerta < 8.1.0 - Authentication Bypass |
|---|---|
| Author | CasperGN,daffainfo |
| Severity | Critical |
| 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. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.88241 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-26214 |
| CWE ID | CWE-287 |
| Tags | cve cve2020 alerta auth-bypass alerta_project passive vuln |
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.
GET /api/config HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:1.9.7.20) Gecko/ Firefox/3.6.8
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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