Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.karaf:apache-karaf · CVE-2016-8750 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.karaf:apache-karaf

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 7, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

org.apache.karaf:apache-karaf (Maven)

Affected versions

< 4.0.8

Patched versions

4.0.8

Description

Apache Karaf prior to 4.0.8 used the LDAPLoginModule to authenticate users to a directory via LDAP. However, it did not encoding usernames properly and hence was vulnerable to LDAP injection attacks leading to a denial of service.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 7, 2019

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

6.5

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

Low

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H