CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5416

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Published: Jun 08, 2017 | Modified: Feb 12, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
5 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V3
5.3 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
LOW

389 Directory Server in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 through 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node 6 through 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 through 7, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 through 7 allows remote attackers to read the default Access Control Instructions.

Weakness

The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Enterprise_linux_desktop Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_desktop Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_hpc_node Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_hpc_node Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_server Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_workstation Redhat 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux_workstation Redhat 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat 389-ds-base-0:1.2.11.15-84.el6_8 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat 389-ds-base-0:1.3.5.10-11.el7 *
389-ds-base Ubuntu artful *
389-ds-base Ubuntu bionic *
389-ds-base Ubuntu cosmic *
389-ds-base Ubuntu devel *
389-ds-base Ubuntu disco *
389-ds-base Ubuntu eoan *
389-ds-base Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
389-ds-base Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
389-ds-base Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
389-ds-base Ubuntu esm-apps/noble *
389-ds-base Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
389-ds-base Ubuntu focal *
389-ds-base Ubuntu groovy *
389-ds-base Ubuntu hirsute *
389-ds-base Ubuntu impish *
389-ds-base Ubuntu jammy *
389-ds-base Ubuntu kinetic *
389-ds-base Ubuntu lunar *
389-ds-base Ubuntu mantic *
389-ds-base Ubuntu noble *
389-ds-base Ubuntu oracular *
389-ds-base Ubuntu precise *
389-ds-base Ubuntu trusty *
389-ds-base Ubuntu upstream *
389-ds-base Ubuntu wily *
389-ds-base Ubuntu xenial *
389-ds-base Ubuntu yakkety *
389-ds-base Ubuntu zesty *

Extended Description

There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:

Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:

Information exposures can occur in different ways:

It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

References