CVE-2022-36436

Description

OSU Open Source Lab VNCAuthProxy through 1.1.1 is affected by an vncap/vnc/protocol.py VNCServerAuthenticator authentication-bypass vulnerability that could allow a malicious actor to gain unauthorized access to a VNC session or to disconnect a legitimate user from a VNC session. A remote attacker with network access to the proxy server could leverage this vulnerability to connect to VNC servers protected by the proxy server without providing any authentication credentials. Exploitation of this issue requires that the proxy server is currently accepting connections for the target VNC server.

Related CPE's

References

https://github.com/osuosl/twisted_vncauthproxy/commit/edc149af29242178091b2d6fcd42c3ef0851644b

https://github.com/osuosl/twisted_vncauthproxy/tree/release/1.1.1

https://pypi.org/project/VNCAuthProxy/

https://cert.grnet.gr/en/blog/cve-2022-36436-twisted-vnc-authentication-proxy-authentication-bypass/

CvssV3 impact

CvssV2 impact