CVE-2006-4600

Summary

CVECVE-2006-4600
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-09-07 00:04:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-17 21:38:00 UTC
Descriptionslapd in OpenLDAP before 2.3.25 allows remote authenticated users with selfwrite Access Control List (ACL) privileges to modify arbitrary Distinguished Names (DN).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openldap Openldap 2.0.20 All All All
Application Openldap Openldap 2.0.21 All All All
Application Openldap Openldap 2.0.22 All All All
Application Openldap Openldap 2.0.23 All All All
Application Openldap Openldap 2.0.24 All All All
Application Openldap Openldap 2.0.20 All All All
Application Openldap Openldap 2.0.21 All All All
Application Openldap Openldap 2.0.22 All All All
Application Openldap Openldap 2.0.23 All All All
Application Openldap Openldap 2.0.24 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ASA-2007-232 (RHSA-2007-0310) CONFIRM support.avaya.com
rPath update for openldap - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - OpenLDAP 'selfwrite' Access Control Error May Let Remote Authenticated Users Make Unauthorized Attribute Modifications SECTRACK securitytracker.com
OpenLDAP 2.3.25 available MLIST www.openldap.org Patch
20070602-01-P SGI patches.sgi.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
SGI Advanced Linux Environment Multiple Updates - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
[Full-Disclosure] Mailing List Charter FULLDISC lists.grok.org.uk
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
OpenLDAP SLAPD Access Control Circumvention Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Patch
VMware ESX Server Multiple Security Updates - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- VMware Workstation and Player: Multiple vulnerabilities GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Gentoo update for vmware - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Trustix Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
[#RPL-667] slapd privilege escalation CVE-2006-4600 - rPath JIRA CONFIRM issues.rpath.com
Red Hat update for openldap - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
OpenLDAP, 2.4.33 Release Changes CONFIRM www.openldap.org Patch
Red Hat Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
OpenLDAP slapd "selfwrite" Security Issue - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Advisories - Mandriva Linux MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
OpenLDAP ITS - Software Bugs/4587 MISC www.openldap.org Patch
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
2006-0055 TRUSTIX www.trustix.org
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Avaya Products OpenLDAP slapd "selfwrite" Security Issue - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Mandriva update for openldap - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-09-05Mark J CoxRed 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.

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690552 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for openldap (ae7124ff-547c-11db-8f1a-000a48049292)

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