SB2017043003 - Race condition in radicale
Published: April 30, 2017 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017043003
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-8342)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Radicale before 1.1.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0rc2 is prone to timing oracles and simple brute-force attacks when using the htpasswd authentication method.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/861514
- https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/blob/1.1.2/NEWS.rst
- https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/commit/059ba8dec1f22ccbeab837e288b3833a099cee2d
- https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/commit/190b1dd795f0c552a4992445a231da760211183b
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00019.html