Vulnerability CVE-2014-8764
Published: 2014-10-22

Description:
DokuWiki 2014-05-05a and earlier, when using Active Directory for LDAP authentication, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a user name and password starting with a null (\0) character, which triggers an anonymous bind.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Mageia project -> Mageia 
Dokuwiki -> Dokuwiki 

 References:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0438.html
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
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