CVE-2020-5849 — Unraid Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Overview
Unraid contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows attackers to gain access to the administrative interface. This CVE is chainable with CVE-2020-5847 for remote code execution.
Vulnerability details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2020-5849
- Vulnerability
- Unraid Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
- Vendor
- Unraid
- Affected products
- Unraid: Unraid
- Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitation status
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)
- Published
- 2021-11-03
Remediation guidance
CVE-2020-5849 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.
Apply the vendor's official security update for Unraid the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.
Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.
Authoritative references
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