CVE-2020-35518

Summary

CVECVE-2020-35518
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-26 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-08-05 17:42:00 UTC
DescriptionWhen binding against a DN during authentication, the reply from 389-ds-base will be different whether the DN exists or not. This can be used by an unauthenticated attacker to check the existence of an entry in the LDAP database.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-203

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Redhat 389 Directory Server All All All All
Application Redhat Directory Server 11.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1905565 – (CVE-2020-35518) CVE-2020-35518 389-ds-base: information disclosure during the binding of a DN MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Issue 4609 - CVE - info disclosure when authenticating · 389ds/389-ds-base@b6aae4d · GitHub MISC github.com
Unexpected info returned to ldap request · Issue #4480 · 389ds/389-ds-base · GitHub MISC github.com
Issue 4480 - Unexpected info returned to ldap request (#4491) · 389ds/389-ds-base@cc0f692 · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159143 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for 389-ds:1.4 (ELSA-2021-1086)
  • 159253 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for 389-ds-base (ELSA-2021-2323)
  • 174763 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security update for 389-ds (SUSE-SU-2021:0724-1)
  • 239203 Red Hat Update for 389-ds:1.4 (RHSA-2021:1086)
  • 239240 Red Hat Update for 389-ds:1.4 (RHSA-2021:1258)
  • 239400 Red Hat Update for 389-ds-base (RHSA-2021:2323)
  • 257088 CentOS Security Update for 389-ds-base (CESA-2021:2323)
  • 281585 Fedora Security Update for 389 (FEDORA-2021-dc1a4934a5)
  • 281586 Fedora Security Update for 389 (FEDORA-2021-7458e2d835)
  • 281587 Fedora Security Update for 389 (FEDORA-2021-263244c071)
  • 352405 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for 389-ds-base: ALAS2-2021-1650
  • 377384 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for 389-ds:1.4 (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0024)
  • 377540 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for 389-ds-base (ALINUX2-SA-2021:0036)
  • 750309 OpenSUSE Security Update for 389-ds (openSUSE-SU-2021:0418-1)
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