Bug 1890740 (CVE-2020-14771)

Summary:	CVE-2020-14771 mysql: Server: Security: LDAP Auth unspecified vulnerability (CPU Oct 2020)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	msiddiqu
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	damien.ciabrini, databases-maint, dbecker, dciabrin, hhorak, jjoyce, jorton, jschluet, lhh, ljavorsk, lpeer, mbayer, mburns, mkocka, mmuzila, mschorm, sclewis, slinaber, SpikeFedora
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Description msiddiqu 2020-10-22 20:13:13 UTC

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Security: LDAP Auth). Supported versions that are affected are 5.7.31 and prior and 8.0.21 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of MySQL Server.

External References:

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html#AppendixMSQL

Comment 1 msiddiqu 2020-10-22 20:40:36 UTC

Created community-mysql tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1890789]


Created mysql:5.7/community-mysql tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-32 [bug 1890791]


Created mysql:8.0/community-mysql tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1890790]

Comment 2 Cedric Buissart 2020-10-27 13:40:15 UTC

Statement:

MySQL as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Software Collection do not have support for LDAP authentication. As a result, this flaw does not affect the component.

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-10-27 14:21:58 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-14771

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2020-11-03 09:04:57 UTC

LDAP authentication plugin is only included in the MySQL Enterprise Edition and is not part of the Community Edition:

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/ldap-pluggable-authentication.html