privacyIDEA Improper Input Validation vulnerability

HIGH 7.5CVE-2018-1000809 · GHSA-7qqv-r2q4-jxhm · PYSEC-2018-20 · Published 08/10/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-1000809 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting privacyidea, privacyidea (privacyidea).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.2% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.23.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
privacyidea PyPI	`< 2.23.2`	`2.23.2`
privacyidea privacyidea	`≤ 2.23.1`	No fix yet

Description

privacyIDEA version 2.23.1 and earlier contains a Improper Input Validation vulnerability in token validation api that can result in Denial-of-Service. This attack appear to be exploitable via http request with user=<space>&pass= to /validate/check url. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.23.2.

NVD description

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000809 · ADVISORY
privacyidea/privacyidea · WEB
privacyidea/privacyidea commit a3edc09 · WEB
GitHub Advisory GHSA-7qqv-r2q4-jxhm · ADVISORY
privacyidea/privacyidea · PACKAGE
pypa/advisory-database · WEB

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