ALAS2-2021-1723

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3652  

A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. If an asterisk is imported as password hashes, either accidentally or maliciously, then instead of being inactive, any password will successfully match during authentication. This flaw allows an attacker to successfully authenticate as a user whose password was disabled. (CVE-2021-3652)

ALAS2-2021-1723


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2021-1723
Advisory Release Date: 2021-12-08 02:21 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2021-12-09 00:44 Pacific
Severity: Low
References: CVE-2021-3652 

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. If an asterisk is imported as password hashes, either accidentally or maliciously, then instead of being inactive, any password will successfully match during authentication. This flaw allows an attacker to successfully authenticate as a user whose password was disabled. (CVE-2021-3652)


Affected Packages:

389-ds-base


Issue Correction:
Run yum update 389-ds-base to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    389-ds-base-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    389-ds-base-libs-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    389-ds-base-devel-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    389-ds-base-snmp-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

i686:
    389-ds-base-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.i686
    389-ds-base-libs-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.i686
    389-ds-base-devel-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.i686
    389-ds-base-snmp-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.i686
    389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.i686

src:
    389-ds-base-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    389-ds-base-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    389-ds-base-libs-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    389-ds-base-devel-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    389-ds-base-snmp-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    389-ds-base-debuginfo-1.3.10.2-13.amzn2.0.1.x86_64