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CVE-2017-8028

Improper Authentication

Published: Nov 27, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
8.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5.1 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.4 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8028
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/287.html

In Pivotal Spring-LDAP versions 1.3.0 - 2.3.1, when connected to some LDAP servers, when no additional attributes are bound, and when using LDAP BindAuthenticator with org.springframework.ldap.core.support.DefaultTlsDirContextAuthenticationStrategy as the authentication strategy, and setting userSearch, authentication is allowed with an arbitrary password when the username is correct. This occurs because some LDAP vendors require an explicit operation for the LDAP bind to take effect.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Spring-ldapPivotal_software1.3.0 (including)1.3.0 (including)
Spring-ldapPivotal_software1.3.1 (including)1.3.1 (including)
Spring-ldapPivotal_software1.3.1-rc1 (including)1.3.1-rc1 (including)
Spring-ldapPivotal_software1.3.2 (including)1.3.2 (including)
Spring-ldapPivotal_software2.0.0 (including)2.0.0 (including)
Spring-ldapPivotal_software2.0.1 (including)2.0.1 (including)
Spring-ldapPivotal_software2.0.2 (including)2.0.2 (including)
Spring-ldapPivotal_software2.0.3 (including)2.0.3 (including)
Spring-ldapPivotal_software2.0.4 (including)2.0.4 (including)
Spring-ldapPivotal_software2.1.0 (including)2.1.0 (including)
Spring-ldapPivotal_software2.2.0 (including)2.2.0 (including)
Spring-ldapPivotal_software2.2.1 (including)2.2.1 (including)
Spring-ldapPivotal_software2.3.0 (including)2.3.0 (including)
Spring-ldapPivotal_software2.3.1 (including)2.3.1 (including)
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3RedHatCamel*
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3RedHatCamel*
Libspring-ldap-javaUbuntutrusty*

Potential Mitigations

References

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