Remote Authentication-Bypass can lead to server crash or limited information disclosure due to faulty pattern matching

CVE Details

Basic Information

Title Remote Authentication-Bypass can lead to server crash or limited information disclosure due to faulty pattern matching
Type cve
Published 2025-02-12T18:16:01.326Z
Modified 2025-02-13T14:14:25.849Z

Product Information

Vendor advplyr
Product audiobookshelf
Version >= 2.17.0, < 2.19.1

CVSS Information

Base Score 8.2 (HIGH)
Attack Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

  • advplyr audiobookshelf >= 2.17.0, < 2.19.1

Additional Information

CWE List CWE-202, CWE-287, CWE-400
Source GitHub_M

Description

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Starting in version 2.17.0 and prior to version 2.19.1, a flaw in the authentication bypass logic allows unauthenticated requests to match certain unanchored regex patterns in the URL. Attackers can craft URLs containing substrings like “/api/items/1/cover” in a query parameter (?r=/api/items/1/cover) to partially bypass authentication or trigger server crashes under certain routes. This could lead to information disclosure of otherwise protected data and, in some cases, a complete denial of service (server crash) if downstream code expects an authenticated user object. Version 2.19.1 contains a patch for the issue.

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