Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3652  

In 389-ds-base, it was found that if an asterisk is imported as a password hashes, either accidentally or maliciously, then instead of being inactive, any password will successfully match during authentication. This would allow an attacker to successfully authenticate as a user who's password was supposedly disabled.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Authentication bypass

Description

In 389-ds-base, it was found that if an asterisk is imported as a password hashes, either accidentally or maliciously, then instead of being inactive, any password will successfully match during authentication. This would allow an attacker to successfully authenticate as a user who's password was supposedly disabled.

AVG-2206 389-ds-base 2.0.3-2 Medium Vulnerable

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1982782
https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/issues/4817
https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/pull/4819
https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/commit/aeb90eb0c41fc48541d983f323c627b2e6c328c7