CVE-2024-47070

authentik vulnerable to password authentication bypass via X-Forwarded-For HTTP header

State
Published
Severity
9.1 Critical
Published
Sep 27, 2024
Updated
Sep 27, 2024
Reserved
Sep 17, 2024

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Description

authentik is an open-source identity provider. A vulnerability that exists in versions prior to 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 allows bypassing password login by adding X-Forwarded-For header with an unparsable IP address, e.g. `a`. This results in a possibility of logging into any account with a known login or email address. The vulnerability requires the authentik instance to trust X-Forwarded-For header provided by the attacker, thus it is not reproducible from external hosts on a properly configured environment. The issue occurs due to the password stage having a policy bound to it, which skips the password stage if the Identification stage is setup to also contain a password stage. Due to the invalid X-Forwarded-For header, which does not get validated to be an IP Address early enough, the exception happens later and the policy fails. The default blueprint doesn't correctly set `failure_result` to `True` on the policy binding meaning that due to this exception the policy returns false and the password stage is skipped. Versions 2024.8.3 and 2024.6.5 fix this issue.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.1 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
authentikgoauthentik
  • >= 2024.8.0-rc1, < 2024.8.3Affected
  • < 2024.6.5Affected

References

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