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NOTICE UPDATED - April, 25th 2024

NIST has updated the NVD program announcement page with additional information regarding recent concerns and the temporary delays in enrichment efforts.

CVE-2023-36456 Detail

Description

authentik is an open-source Identity Provider. Prior to versions 2023.4.3 and 2023.5.5, authentik does not verify the source of the X-Forwarded-For and X-Real-IP headers, both in the Python code and the go code. Only authentik setups that are directly accessible by users without a reverse proxy are susceptible to this. Possible spoofing of IP addresses in logs, downstream applications proxied by (built in) outpost, IP bypassing in custom flows if used. This poses a possible security risk when someone has flows or policies that check the user's IP address, e.g. when they want to ignore the user's 2 factor authentication when the user is connected to the company network. A second security risk is that the IP addresses in the logfiles and user sessions are not reliable anymore. Anybody can spoof this address and one cannot verify that the user has logged in from the IP address that is in their account's log. A third risk is that this header is passed on to the proxied application behind an outpost. The application may do any kind of verification, logging, blocking or rate limiting based on the IP address, and this IP address can be overridden by anybody that want to. Versions 2023.4.3 and 2023.5.5 contain a patch for this issue.


Severity



CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  7.3 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  GitHub, Inc.
Base Score:  8.3 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L


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Hyperlink Resource
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/15026748d19d490eb2baf9a9566ead4f805f7dff Patch 
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/c07a48a3eccbd7b23026f72136d3392bbc6f795a Patch 
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/security/advisories/GHSA-cmxp-jcw7-jjjv Vendor Advisory 
https://goauthentik.io/docs/releases/2023.4#fixed-in-202343 Release Notes 
https://goauthentik.io/docs/releases/2023.5#fixed-in-202355 Release Notes 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-436 Interpretation Conflict Provider acceptance level GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-36456
NVD Published Date:
07/06/2023
NVD Last Modified:
07/13/2023
Source:
GitHub, Inc.