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FKIE_CVE-2026-86219

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-06 18:17 - Updated: 2026-09-08 19:20
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Authen::SASL::Perl::DIGEST_MD5 versions before 2.2100 for Perl accept replayed authentication responses via unverified nonce in server_step. server_start generates a fresh nonce and sends it in the challenge, and nothing later compares that value against the nonce the client returns. server_step derives the expected digest from the client's own parameters, so a response verifies whenever its digest matches the nonce it carries. The count table it also checks is keyed on the client-supplied nonce and starts empty in each new server object, so a captured first response, carrying `nc=00000001`, passes that too. RFC 2831 defines the nonce in the response as the value the server sent in the preceding challenge. An attacker who observes one successful `qop=auth` exchange can replay the captured response against a later session for the same service, host, realm and user, and authenticate as that user without knowing the password.
References
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2831#section-2.1.2
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://github.com/perl-authen-sasl/perl-authen-sasl/commit/94337367030612842924f697cead29964a96448d.patch
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://metacpan.org/release/EHUELS/Authen-SASL-2.2000/source/lib/Authen/SASL/Perl/DIGEST_MD5.pm#L203-222
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://metacpan.org/release/EHUELS/Authen-SASL-2.2000/source/lib/Authen/SASL/Perl/DIGEST_MD5.pm#L410-414
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://metacpan.org/release/EHUELS/Authen-SASL-2.2100/changes
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441ehttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40918
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          ],
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