CVE-2019-20933

Publication date 19 November 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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).

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
influxdb	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.6.7~rc0-1
	21.10 impish	Fixed 1.6.7~rc0-1
	21.04 hirsute	Fixed 1.6.7~rc0-1
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.6.4-1+deb10u1build0.20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.1.1+dfsg1-4+deb9u1ubuntu1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5451-1
InfluxDB vulnerability
31 May 2022