CVE-2021-21335

critical

Description

In the SPNEGO HTTP Authentication Module for nginx (spnego-http-auth-nginx-module) before version 1.1.1 basic Authentication can be bypassed using a malformed username. This affects users of spnego-http-auth-nginx-module that have enabled basic authentication. This is fixed in version 1.1.1 of spnego-http-auth-nginx-module. As a workaround, one may disable basic authentication.

References

https://github.com/stnoonan/spnego-http-auth-nginx-module/security/advisories/GHSA-ww8q-72rx-hc54

https://github.com/stnoonan/spnego-http-auth-nginx-module/releases/tag/v1.1.1

https://github.com/stnoonan/spnego-http-auth-nginx-module/commit/a06f9efca373e25328b1c53639a48decd0854570

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-03-08

Updated: 2021-03-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical