CVE-2018-10871

low-risk
Published 2018-07-18

389-ds-base before versions 1.3.8.5, 1.4.0.12 is vulnerable to a Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. By default, when the Replica and/or retroChangeLog plugins are enabled, 389-ds-base stores passwords in plaintext format in their respective changelog files. An attacker with sufficiently high privileges, such as root or Directory Manager, can query these files in order to retrieve plaintext passwords.

Do I need to act?

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0.36% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 3.8/10 Low
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

Affected Vendors

Debian Fedoraproject

References (8)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3401
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10871
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00032.html
Issue Tracking https://pagure.io/389-ds-base/issue/49789
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3401
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10871
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00032.html
Issue Tracking https://pagure.io/389-ds-base/issue/49789
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low-risk
Severity 17/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 7/34 · Low