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phpLDAPadmin Anonymous Bind Security Bypass
Secunia Advisory: SA16611
Release Date: 2005-08-30
Last Update: 2005-09-01
Popularity: 9,042 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:phpLDAPadmin 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-2654


Description:
Alexander Gerasiov has reported a security issue in phpLDAPadmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to an error in login.php when validating whether anonymous bind has been disabled in the configuration. This can be exploited to access the LDAP server anonymously, even if anonymous bind has been disabled in the configuration with the "disable_anon_bind" statement.

The security issue has been reported in 0.9.6c. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 0.9.7-alpha6.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Alexander Gerasiov

Changelog:
2005-09-01: Fixed version released. Updated solution status.

Original Advisory:
Debian:
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-790


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