CVE-2021-40874

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

An issue was discovered in LemonLDAP::NG (aka lemonldap-ng) 2.0.13. When using the RESTServer plug-in to operate a REST password validation service (for another LemonLDAP::NG instance, for example) and using the Kerberos authentication method combined with another method with the Combination authentication plug-in, any password will be recognized as valid for an existing user.

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 Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.0.14+ds-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.0.14+ds-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.0.14+ds-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.0.11+ds-4+deb11u1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.0.14+ds-1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-40874

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

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