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Secunia Advisory SA8945

Mac OS X LDAP Clear Text User Credentials
Secunia Advisory SA8945
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Release Date 2003-06-05
Last Update 2003-06-10
   
Popularity 15,559 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where From local network
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Operating System
Apple Macintosh OS X
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in the LDAP implementation in Mac OS X allowing malicious people to sniff clear text passwords.

The problem occurs when Kerberos is used for user authentication and LDAP to get user data. When an error occurs there will be a protocol fallback, sending username and password in clear text rather than using Kerberos.


Solution
Apple has written a document describing how to configure LDAP with Kerberos correctly:
Further details available in Customer Area

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