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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - 389-ds-base: replication and the Retro Changelog plugin store plaintext password by default     (CVE-2018-10871)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - 389-ds-base: Password brute-force possible for locked account due to different return codes     (CVE-2017-7551)

  - 389-ds-base before versions 1.4.0.10, 1.3.8.3 is vulnerable to a race condition in the way 389-ds-base     handles persistent search, resulting in a crash if the server is under load. An anonymous attacker could     use this flaw to trigger a denial of service. (CVE-2018-10850)

  - 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. (CVE-2018-10871)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-3401 advisory.

  - In 389-ds-base up to version 1.4.1.2, requests are handled by workers threads. Each sockets will be waited     by the worker for at most 'ioblocktimeout' seconds. However this timeout applies only for un-encrypted     requests. Connections using SSL/TLS are not taking this timeout into account during reads, and may hang     longer.An unauthenticated attacker could repeatedly create hanging LDAP requests to hang all the workers,     resulting in a Denial of Service. (CVE-2019-3883)

  - A flaw was found in the 'deref' plugin of 389-ds-base where it could use the 'search' permission to     display attribute values. In some configurations, this could allow an authenticated attacker to view     private attributes, such as password hashes. (CVE-2019-14824)

  - 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. (CVE-2018-10871)

  - A flaw has been found in 389-ds-base versions 1.4.x.x before 1.4.1.3. When executed in verbose mode, the     dscreate and dsconf commands may display sensitive information, such as the Directory Manager password. An     attacker, able to see the screen or record the terminal standard error output, could use this flaw to gain     sensitive information. (CVE-2019-10224)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2019:3401 advisory.

  - 389-ds-base: replication and the Retro Changelog plugin store plaintext password by default     (CVE-2018-10871)

  - 389-ds-base: using dscreate in verbose mode results in information disclosure (CVE-2019-10224)

  - 389-ds-base: Read permission check bypass via the deref plugin (CVE-2019-14824)

  - 389-ds-base: DoS via hanging secured connections (CVE-2019-3883)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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.(CVE-2018-10871)

A flaw has been found in 389-ds-base versions 1.4.x.x before 1.4.1.3.
When executed in verbose mode, the dscreate and dsconf commands may display sensitive information, such as the Directory Manager password.
An attacker, able to see the screen or record the terminal standard error output, could use this flaw to gain sensitive information.(CVE-2019-10224)

A flaw was found in the 'deref' plugin of 389-ds-base where it could use the 'search' permission to display attribute values. In some configurations, this could allow an authenticated attacker to view private attributes, such as password hashes.(CVE-2019-14824)

In 389-ds-base up to version 1.4.1.2, requests are handled by workers threads. Each sockets will be waited by the worker for at most 'ioblocktimeout' seconds. However this timeout applies only for un-encrypted requests. Connections using SSL/TLS are not taking this timeout into account during reads, and may hang longer.An unauthenticated attacker could repeatedly create hanging LDAP requests to hang all the workers, resulting in a Denial of Service.(CVE-2019-3883)

It was found that encrypted connections did not honor the 'ioblocktimeout' parameter to end blocking requests. As a result, an unauthenticated attacker could repeatedly start a sufficient number of encrypted connections to block all workers, resulting in a denial of service.(CVE-2019-3883)

According to the version of the 389-ds-base packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - 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.(CVE-2018-10871)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:3401 advisory.

  - 389-ds-base: replication and the Retro Changelog plugin store plaintext password by default     (CVE-2018-10871)

  - 389-ds-base: DoS via hanging secured connections (CVE-2019-3883)

  - 389-ds-base: using dscreate in verbose mode results in information disclosure (CVE-2019-10224)

  - 389-ds-base: Read permission check bypass via the deref plugin (CVE-2019-14824)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for 389-ds to version 1.4.0.26 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2016-5416: Fixed an information disclosure where a anonymous user could read the default ACI (bsc#991201).

CVE-2018-1054: Fixed a denial of service via search filters in SetUnicodeStringFromUTF_8() (bsc#1083689).

CVE-2018-1089: Fixed a buffer overflow via large filter value (bsc#1092187).

CVE-2018-10871: Fixed an information disclosure in certain plugins leading to the disclosure of plaintext password to an privileged attackers (bsc#1099465).

CVE-2018-14638: Fixed a denial of service through a crash in delete_passwdPolicy () (bsc#1108674).

CVE-2018-14648: Fixed a denial of service caused by malformed values in search queries (bsc#1109609).

CVE-2018-10935: Fixed a denial of service related to ldapsearch with server side sort (bsc#1105606).

CVE-2019-3883: Fixed a denial of service caused by hanging LDAP requests over TLS (bsc#1132385).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

CVE-2018-10871

By default nsslapd-unhashed-pw-switch was set to 'on'. So a copy of the unhashed password was kept in modifiers and was possibly logged in changelog and retroCL.

Unless it is used by some plugin it does not require to keep unhashed passwords. The nsslapd-unhashed-pw-switch option is now 'off' by default.

CVE-2018-10935

It was discovered that any authenticated user doing a search using ldapsearch with extended controls for server side sorting could bring down the LDAP server itself.

The fix is to check if we are able to index the provided value. If we are not, then slapd_qsort returns an error (LDAP_OPERATION_ERROR) .

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.3.5-4+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your 389-ds-base packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
200027	RHEL 7 : 389-ds-base (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
199983	RHEL 6 : 389-ds-base (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
180753	Oracle Linux 8 : 389-ds:1.4 (ELSA-2019-3401)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
145664	CentOS 8 : 389-ds:1.4 (CESA-2019:3401)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
133004	Amazon Linux AMI : 389-ds-base (ALAS-2020-1334)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
132271	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : 389-ds-base (EulerOS-SA-2019-2554)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
130836	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : 389-ds-base (EulerOS-SA-2019-2127)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
130535	RHEL 8 : 389-ds:1.4 (RHSA-2019:3401)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
128021	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : 389-ds (SUSE-SU-2019:2155-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
112195	Debian DLA-1483-1 : 389-ds-base security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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