ubuntu · CVE-2016-2167

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Priority: low Published: 2016-05-05 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:56:50 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2167 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (subversion), 8 status rows across 8 suites (artful, precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 3, released 3, ignored 2.

Description:

The canonicalize_username function in svnserve/cyrus_auth.c in Apache Subversion before 1.8.16 and 1.9.x before 1.9.4, when Cyrus SASL authentication is used, allows remote attackers to authenticate and bypass intended access restrictions via a realm string that is a prefix of an expected repository realm string.

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