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CVE-2021-3652

Published: 18 April 2022

A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. If an asterisk is imported as password hashes, either accidentally or maliciously, then instead of being inactive, any password will successfully match during authentication. This flaw allows an attacker to successfully authenticate as a user whose password was disabled.

Notes

AuthorNote
ccdm94
this CVE is very similar to CVE-2017-15135. The patch for
CVE-2017-15135 seems to fix this issue. CVE-2017-15135
was introduced in a patch for CVE-2016-5405, not applied
in trusty and xenial. The patch for CVE-2017-15135 is
included in the package for releases following xenial.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
389-ds-base
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(1.3.7.10-1ubuntu1)
focal Not vulnerable
(1.3.7.10-1ubuntu1)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(1.3.7.10-1ubuntu1)
impish Not vulnerable
(1.3.7.10-1ubuntu1)
jammy Not vulnerable
(1.3.7.10-1ubuntu1)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [code not present])
upstream
Released (1.3.7.9-1, 1.4.2.18, 1.4.3.25, 1.4.4.17, 2.0.7)
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/commit/aeb90eb0c41fc48541d983f323c627b2e6c328c7
upstream: https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/commit/c1926dfc6591b55c4d33f9944de4d7ebe077e964
upstream: https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/commit/18271bad6395032a20465c7db9ea47636ad5fb45
upstream: https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/commit/fd4c991bd3da4c7d486a87ede8f4956cc6ed8a0d

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N