4.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2009-1073

Published: 31/03/2009 Updated: 15/02/2024
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 436
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

nss-ldapd prior to 0.6.8 uses world-readable permissions for the /etc/nss-ldapd.conf file, which allows local users to obtain a cleartext password for the LDAP server by reading the bindpw field.

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debian nss-ldap

debian debian linux 5.0

Vendor Advisories

Leigh James discovered that nss-ldapd, an NSS module for using LDAP as a naming service, by default creates the configuration file /etc/nss-ldapdconf world-readable which could leak the configured LDAP password if one is used for connecting to the LDAP server The old stable distribution (etch) doesn't contain nss-ldapd For the stable distributio ...