CVE-2014-8763

DokuWiki before 2014-05-05b, when using Active Directory for LDAP authentication, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication via a password starting with a null (\0) character and a valid user name, which triggers an unauthenticated bind.

Published: 2014-10-22 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-8763 is rated Moderate Risk (46.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.05%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-8763

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-31 0.68% 1.05% +0.37%
2 2025-03-30 1.09% 0.68% -0.42%
3 2025-03-29 — 1.09% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-8763

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-8763

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-8763

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2014-8763 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (dokuwiki), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8763
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-8763 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dokuwiki), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 8, not-affected 4, DNE 1, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8763

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-8763

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
dokuwiki dokuwiki <= 2014-05-05a cpe:2.3:a:dokuwiki:dokuwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mageia_project mageia 3.0 cpe:2.3:o:mageia_project:mageia:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mageia_project mageia 4.0 cpe:2.3:o:mageia_project:mageia:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-8763

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