CVE-2018-10871

high

Description

389-ds-base before versions 1.3.8.5, 1.4.0.12 is vulnerable to a Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. By default, when the Replica and/or retroChangeLog plugins are enabled, 389-ds-base stores passwords in plaintext format in their respective changelog files. An attacker with sufficiently high privileges, such as root or Directory Manager, can query these files in order to retrieve plaintext passwords.

References

https://pagure.io/389-ds-base/issue/49789

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00032.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10871

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3401

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-07-18

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High