{ "document": { "aggregate_severity": { "text": "critical" }, "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Authen::SASL::Perl::DIGEST_MD5 versions before 2.2100 for Perl accept replayed authentication responses via unverified nonce in server_step.\n\nserver_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.\n\nAn 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.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA-Authen-SASL-2026-86219 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2026/cpansa-authen-sasl-2026-86219.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2831#section-2.1.2", "url": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2831#section-2.1.2" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://github.com/perl-authen-sasl/perl-authen-sasl/commit/94337367030612842924f697cead29964a96448d.patch", "url": "https://github.com/perl-authen-sasl/perl-authen-sasl/commit/94337367030612842924f697cead29964a96448d.patch" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://metacpan.org/release/EHUELS/Authen-SASL-2.2000/source/lib/Authen/SASL/Perl/DIGEST_MD5.pm#L203-222", "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/EHUELS/Authen-SASL-2.2000/source/lib/Authen/SASL/Perl/DIGEST_MD5.pm#L203-222" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://metacpan.org/release/EHUELS/Authen-SASL-2.2000/source/lib/Authen/SASL/Perl/DIGEST_MD5.pm#L410-414", "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/EHUELS/Authen-SASL-2.2000/source/lib/Authen/SASL/Perl/DIGEST_MD5.pm#L410-414" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://metacpan.org/release/EHUELS/Authen-SASL-2.2100/changes", "url": "https://metacpan.org/release/EHUELS/Authen-SASL-2.2100/changes" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40918", "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40918" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "CVE-2026-86219 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86219" } ], "title": "Authen-SASL vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2026-09-06T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.26" } }, "id": "CPANSA-Authen-SASL-2026-86219", "initial_release_date": "2026-09-06T00:00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-06T00:00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "First release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/<2.2100", "product": { "name": "Authen-SASL less than 2.2100", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/Authen-SASL" } } }, { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/>=2.2100", "product": { "name": "Authen-SASL greater than or equal 2.2100", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0002", "product_identification_helper": { "purl": "pkg:cpan/Authen-SASL" } } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "Authen-SASL" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2026-86219", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-294", "name": "Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "Authen::SASL::Perl::DIGEST_MD5 versions before 2.2100 for Perl accept replayed authentication responses via unverified nonce in server_step.\n\nserver_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.\n\nAn 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.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "CSAFPID-0002" ], "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "scores": [ { "cvss_v3": { "baseScore": 9.8, "baseSeverity": "CRITICAL", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "version": "3.1" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] } ] }