CVE-2005-2069

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Summary

CVECVE-2005-2069
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2005-06-30 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
Descriptionpam_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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-319 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openldap Openldap All All All All
Application Padl Nss Ldap - All All All
Application Padl Pam Ldap - All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Fedora update for openldap - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
usn/usn-152-1 - Ubuntu Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- pam_ldap and nss_ldap: Plain text authentication leak af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
161990 – openldap password disclosure issue af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Secunia - Advisories - Red Hat update for openldap / nss_ldap af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
www.osvdb.org/17692 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org Broken Link
Bug 210 - ssl start_tls not honoured when chasing referrals af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.padl.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org Third Party Advisory
archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-07/0060.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com Broken Link
ASA-2006-157 (RHSA-2005-751) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.avaya.com Third Party Advisory
Gentoo Bug 96767 - sys-auth/{pam_ldap|nss_ldap} not using tls for referred connections af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
Advisories - Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wwwnew.mandriva.com Third Party Advisory
OpenLDAP ITS - Incoming/3791 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openldap.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Avaya Products Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
OpenLDAP TLS Plaintext Password Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
PADL Software PAM_LDAP TLS Plaintext Password Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.padl.com Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 900145 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for openldap 2.4.50
  • 903296 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for openldap (2545)
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