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Secunia Advisory SA26445

Fedora Commons Empty LDAP Passwords Authentication Bypass
Secunia Advisory SA26445
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Release Date 2007-08-14
Last Update 2007-08-16
   
Popularity 5,851 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Security Bypass
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Fedora Commons 2.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-4364 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
Bill Niebel has reported a vulnerability in Fedora Commons, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when binding to an LDAP server with an empty password. Depending on the LDAP implementation used, this can be exploited to bypass the authentication mechanism.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.2.1.

Solution
Update to version 2.2.1.

Provided and/or discovered by
Bill Niebel

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=531870

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1731608&group_id=177054&atid=879703

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