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Fedora Commons Empty LDAP Passwords Authentication Bypass
Secunia Advisory: SA26445
Release Date: 2007-08-14
Last Update: 2007-08-16
Popularity: 5,081 views

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

Software:Fedora Commons 2.x

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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.

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