Vulnerability CVE-2021-21335
Published: 2021-03-08

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.

Type:

CWE-287

 (Improper Authentication)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Spnego http authentication module project -> Spnego http authentication module 

 References:
https://github.com/stnoonan/spnego-http-auth-nginx-module/commit/a06f9efca373e25328b1c53639a48decd0854570
https://github.com/stnoonan/spnego-http-auth-nginx-module/releases/tag/v1.1.1
https://github.com/stnoonan/spnego-http-auth-nginx-module/security/advisories/GHSA-ww8q-72rx-hc54
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