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critical 9.8

CVE-2019-20933 in the critical feed json

Improper Authentication in InfluxDB

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-2rmp-fw5r-j5qv , GO-2022-0780 , EUVD-2021-0904

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
32.3%
EPSS 32.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

InfluxDB before 1.7.6 has an authentication bypass vulnerability in the authenticate function in services/httpd/handler.go because a JWT token may have an empty SharedSecret (aka shared secret).

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/influxdata/influxdb 1.7.6
  • influxdata influxdb 1.7.6
  • influxdb Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.6.7~rc0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-20933

  • influxdb Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1.1.1+dfsg1-4+deb9u1ubuntu1
  • influxdb Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1.6.4-1+deb10u1build0.20.04.1
  • influxdb Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1.6.7~rc0-1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20933

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • spark OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 2.2.3-5.3.3
  • grafana OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 6.7.4-3.20.1
  • influxdb OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 1.3.8-4.3.3
  • ardana-mq OpenStack Cloud 9 9.0+git.1605174486.a78ddce-3.19.2
  • crowbar-core OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 6.0+git.1606314264.bf9ada813-3.31.2
  • python-Jinja2 OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 2.10.1-3.3.3
  • python-pytest OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 3.7.4-3.3.3
  • ardana-tempest OpenStack Cloud 9 9.0+git.1603378983.fc0bca9-3.19.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:3897-1SUSE-SU-2020:3624-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-20933 updated cvss 8.6

influxdb: authentication bypass because a JWT token may have an empty SharedSecret

  • Red Hat Distributed Tracing Jaeger 1 jaeger-rhel8-operator Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1 servicemesh-prometheus Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0 servicemesh-prometheus Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 influxdb Red Hat Fuse 7 influxdb-java influxdb-java, camel-influxdb camel-influxdb, camel-influxdb-starter camel-influxdb-starter Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 influxdb-java influxdb-java, camel-influxdb camel-influxdb, camel-quarkus-influxdb-deployment camel-quarkus-influxdb-deployment, camel-quarkus-influxdb-integration-test camel-quarkus-influxdb-integration-test
    +2 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 influxdb-java influxdb-java Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-prometheus-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

32.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/influxdata/influxdb
<1.7.6
1.7.6

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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