CVE-2019-20933
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 30.9% (pctl 98)
Patch early
EPSS 30.9% — above the 10% action threshold.
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).
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 30.92% — more likely to be exploited than 98% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-287 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2020-11-19 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| debian | debian linux |
| influxdata | influxdb |
References
- https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/commit/761b557315ff9c1642cf3b0e5797cd3d983a24c0
- https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/compare/v1.7.5...v1.7.6
- https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/12927
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00030.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4823
- https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/commit/761b557315ff9c1642cf3b0e5797cd3d983a24c0
- https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/compare/v1.7.5...v1.7.6
- https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/12927
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00030.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4823
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