CVE-2017-11501

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jul 20, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Jul 20, 2017

Description

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.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/20/1
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/nix-security-announce/qrDU0KH_ZRk
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/27506

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