Security Advisory SA27111 - ldapscripts Command Line User Credentials Disclosure

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Secunia Advisory SA27111

ldapscripts Command Line User Credentials Disclosure

Secunia Advisory

SA27111

Release Date

2007-10-09

Last Update

2007-10-15

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Exposure of sensitive information

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Software:

ldapscripts 1.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2007-5373 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A security issue has been reported in ldapscripts, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information.

The security issue is caused due to certain scripts of ldapscripts passing sensitive information (e.g. user credentials) to other applications as command line parameter, which can be exploited to disclose the information by e.g. using the "ps" command.

The security issue is reported in version 1.4 and 1.7. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 1.7.1.

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported in a Debian bug by Don Armstrong.

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Original Advisory
ldapscripts:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=156483&release_id=546600

Debian bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445582

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