CVE-2017-11501 (GCVE-0-2017-11501)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-20 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 18:12
VLAI
Summary
NixOS 17.03 and earlier has an unintended default absence of SSL Certificate Validation for LDAP. The users.ldap NixOS module implements user authentication against LDAP servers via a PAM module. It was found that if TLS is enabled to connect to the LDAP server with users.ldap.useTLS, peer verification will be unconditionally disabled in /etc/ldap.conf.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2309 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2017-07-20 00:00
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