CVE-2018-10871 Information disclosure in 389-ds-base

What is CVE-2018-10871?

CVE-2018-10871 is a low-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 18 Jul 2018. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

389-ds-base before versions 1.3.8.5, 1.4.0.12 is vulnerable to a Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. By default, when the Replica and/or retroChangeLog plugins are enabled, 389-ds-base stores passwords in plaintext format in their respective changelog files. An attacker with sufficiently high privileges, such as root or Directory Manager, can query these files in order to retrieve plaintext passwords.

Weakness: CWE-312

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10871?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject 389 Directory Server.

How do I fix CVE-2018-10871?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2018-10871 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10871 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10871, GHSA-pxxp-9p24-326h, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10871.