CVE-2020-1778 Bypassing user account validation
Attackers can bypass account validation to log in as invalid agents when multiple authentication backends are configured.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-1778?
CVE-2020-1778 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Otrs Otrs, published on 23 Nov 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
When OTRS uses multiple backends for user authentication (with LDAP), agents are able to login even if the account is set to invalid. This issue affects OTRS; 8.0.9 and prior versions.
Weakness: CWE-287
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-1778?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Otrs Otrs.
How do I fix CVE-2020-1778?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-1778 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2020-1778 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-1778 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Otrs Otrs
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vwfv-p8p3-m4r7, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-1778.