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CVE-2026-93483

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Description

In Znuny through 7.3.6, an attacker can bypass specific standard login procedures and gain unauthorized access to sensitive system functions by manipulating a specific HTTP request header. Because the application incorrectly trusts this header, an attacker can impersonate any user, including administrators, without requiring a password. This grants full access to confidential data and system controls. More specifically, the HTTPBasicAuth modules for the agent (Kernel::System::Auth::HTTPBasicAuth) and customer (Kernel::System::CustomerAuth::HTTPBasicAuth) interfaces read the username to log in not only from $ENV{REMOTE_USER} (set by the web server after successful authentication), but also, as a fallback, from $ENV{HTTP_REMOTE_USER}, which is populated directly from an attacker-controllable "Remote-User" request header. On systems where HTTPBasicAuth was configured as the authentication backend, this allowed an attacker to log in as any existing user by sending a request with a forged Remote-User header, without providing any credentials.

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.5 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-10-15 04:18:30.153000
Last modified
2026-10-19 19:18:14.380000
View original CVE JSON
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  "id": "CVE-2026-93483",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-10-15T04:18:30.153",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-19T19:18:14.380",
  "vulnStatus": "Deferred",
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    }
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          "availabilityRequirement": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "modifiedAttackVector": "NOT_DEFINED",
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          "modifiedPrivilegesRequired": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "modifiedUserInteraction": "NOT_DEFINED",
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  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.znuny.org/advisories",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.znuny.org/en/advisories/zsa-2026-14",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    }
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