Bug 1114460 (CVE-2014-4668) - CVE-2014-4668 cherokee: authentication bypass when LDAP server allows unauthenticated binds
Summary: CVE-2014-4668 cherokee: authentication bypass when LDAP server allows unauthe...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2014-4668
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1114461 1114463
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-06-30 06:57 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:33:44 UTC
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-06-30 06:57:26 UTC
Matthew Daley reported the following flaw:

""
Cherokee supports authenticating users via LDAP. It does
not ensure that users provide a non-empty password when doing so. If
the underlying LDAP server allows unauthenticated binds (see RFC 4513,
section 5.1.2: <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4513#section-5.1.2>), an
unauthenticated bind will be performed and not the name/password-based
authenticated bind that Cherokee is expecting. This success of this
bind will cause Cherokee to authenticate the user. This allows an
attacker to authenticate as a user for which they only know the
username and not the password.
Affected versions: current releases (<= 1.2.103)
""

Upstream fix: https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/commit/fbda667221c51f0aa476a02366e0cf66cb012f88

Original report: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/698

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-06-30 06:58:45 UTC
Created cherokee tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1114461]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1114463]

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2015-05-03 00:46:39 UTC
cherokee-1.2.103-6.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:33:44 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.


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