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Critical USN-5451-1 1 CVE

influxdb vulnerability

Published May 31, 2022 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Ilya Averyanov discovered that an InfluxDB vulnerability allowed
attackers to bypass authentication and gain access to any known
database user.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS influxdb 1.1.1+dfsg1-4+deb9u1ubuntu1
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS influxdb 1.6.4-1+deb10u1build0.20.04.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2019-20933 Public exploit Scanner template EPSS 32%

    Improper Authentication in InfluxDB

    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).

    influxdb github.com/influxdata/influxdb influxdb Debian Ubuntu Go

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-20933