CVE-2012-2678

low
Published 2012-07-03 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.2

Description

389 Directory Server before 1.2.11.6 (aka Red Hat Directory Server before 8.2.10-3), after the password for a LDAP user has been changed and before the server has been reset, allows remote attackers to read the plaintext password via the unhashed#user#password attribute.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhatdirectory_server{"endIncluding":"8.2"}
redhat redhatdirectory_server7.1
redhat redhatdirectory_server8.0
redhat redhatdirectory_server8.1
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server{"endIncluding":"1.2.11.5"}
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.1
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.2
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.3
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.5
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.6
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.6.1
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.7
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.7.5
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.8
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.8.1
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.8.2
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.8.3
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.9.9
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.10
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.10.1
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.10.2
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.10.3
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.10.4
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.10.7
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.11.1

References

CWEs

CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.