USN-4620-1: phpLDAPadmin vulnerability
5 November 2020
phpLDAPadmin could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.
Releases
Packages
- phpldapadmin - A web-based LDAP client
Details
It was discovered that phpLDAPadmin didn't properly sanitize before being
echoed to the user. A remote attacker could inject arbitrary HTML/Javascript
code in a user's context and cause a crash, resulting in denial of service or
potential execution of arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 18.04
After a standard system update you need to restart phpLDAPadmin to make
all the necessary changes.