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Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay

CVE-2024-8260

High
7.3/10

Summary

A SMB force-authentication vulnerability exists in github.com/open-policy-agent/opa package versions prior to 0.68.0. The vulnerability exists because of improper input validation, allowing a user to pass an arbitrary SMB share instead of a "Rego" file as an argument to OPA CLI or to one of the OPA Go library's functions.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-294 - Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay

A capture-replay flaw exists when the design of the software makes it possible for a malicious user to sniff network traffic and bypass authentication by replaying it to the server in question to the same effect as the original message (or with minor changes).

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published