National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-2069
Original release date:06/30/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
pam_ldap and nss_ldap, when used with OpenLDAP and connecting to a slave using TLS, does not use TLS for the subsequent connection if the client is referred to a master, which may cause a password to be sent in cleartext and allows remote attackers to sniff the password.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=3791
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=210
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161990
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: ldap-tls-information-disclosure(21245)
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2005:121
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-152-1
External Source: BID
Name: 14126
External Source: BID
Name: 14125
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:767
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:751
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 17692
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-2005-07-13
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-157.htm
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21520
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17845
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17233
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96767
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20050704 pam_ldap/nss_ldap password leak in a master+slave+start_tls LDAP setup