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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-4600

Original release date:09/07/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

slapd in OpenLDAP before 2.3.25 allows remote authenticated users with selfwrite Access Control List (ACL) privileges to modify arbitrary Distinguished Names (DN).

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:2.3 (LOW) (AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 4.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Local network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (09/05/2007)
Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205826 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 which is in maintenance mode.

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External Source: BID
Name: 19832
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19832
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.openldap.org/software/release/changes.html
External Source: MLIST
Name: [openldap-announce] 20060801 OpenLDAP 2.3.25 available
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-announce/200608/msg00000.html
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=4587
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=4587
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 21721
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21721
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-667
Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-667
External Source: XF
Name: openldap-selfwrite-security-bypass(28772)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28772
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060929 rPSA-2006-0176-1 openldap openldap-clients openldap-servers
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/447395/100/200/threaded
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0310
Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0310.html
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:171
Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:171
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1016783
Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016783
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25098
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25098
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22273
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22273
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22219
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22219
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2006-0055
Hyperlink:http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0055
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0430
Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0430.html
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-3229
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/3229
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-2186
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/2186
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-232.htm
Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-232.htm
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200711-23
Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27706
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27706
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26909
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26909
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25894
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25894
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25676
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25676
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25628
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25628
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 22300
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22300
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20070920 VMSA-2007-0006 Critical security updates for all supported versions of VMware ESX Server, VMware Server, VMware Workstation, VMware ACE, and VMware Player
Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html
External Source: SGI
Name: 20070602-01-P
Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:openldap:openldap:2.0.22
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:openldap:openldap:2.0.23
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:openldap:openldap:2.0.24
* Denotes Vulnerable Software
* Changes related to vulnerability configurations

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)
CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4600