CVE-2019-20933
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 93.7%influxdb - security update
Published: 5/18/2021Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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).
Affected packages (5)
- Debian/influxdbfrom 0, < 1.6.7~rc0-1
- Debian/influxdbfrom 0, < 1.1.1+dfsg1-4+deb9u1
- Debian/influxdbfrom 0, < 1.6.4-1+deb10u1
- Go/github.com/influxdata/influxdbfrom 0, < 1.7.6
- Go/github.com/influxdata/influxdbfrom 0, < 1.7.6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (10)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2rmp-fw5r-j5qv
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20933
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-20933
- PATCHhttps://pkg.go.dev/github.com/influxdata/influxdb/services/httpd
- WEBhttps://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/commit/761b557315ff9c1642cf3b0e5797cd3d983a24c0
- WEBhttps://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/compare/v1.7.5...v1.7.6
- WEBhttps://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/12927
- WEBhttps://github.com/ticarpi/jwt_tool/blob/a6ca3e0524a204b5add070bc6874cb4e7e5a9864/jwt_tool.py#L1368
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00030.html
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4823