CVE-2020-15719 Security feature bypass in n/a

Medium 4.2 Published Updated

Attackers can bypass certificate validation in OpenLDAP libraries when RFC6125 support is enabled, allowing man-in-the-middle attacks.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2020-15719?

CVE-2020-15719 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openldap Openldap, published on 14 Jul 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

libldap in certain third-party OpenLDAP packages has a certificate-validation flaw when the third-party package is asserting RFC6125 support. It considers CN even when there is a non-matching subjectAltName (SAN). This is fixed in, for example, openldap-2.4.46-10.el8 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Weakness: CWE-295

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-15719?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including openldap. It affects 5 products.

PackageAffectedFixed in
openldap BitnamiAll versions2.4.46-10.el8
Linux distribution packages (15)
openldap Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseosAll versions0:2.4.46-10.el8
openldap-clients Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseosAll versions0:2.4.46-10.el8
openldap-clients-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseosAll versions0:2.4.46-10.el8
openldap-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseosAll versions0:2.4.46-10.el8
openldap-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseosAll versions0:2.4.46-10.el8
openldap-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseosAll versions0:2.4.46-10.el8
openldap-servers-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::baseosAll versions0:2.4.46-10.el8
openldap2 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1All versions2.4.46-9.34.1
openldap2 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2All versions2.4.46-9.34.1
openldap2 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP1All versions2.4.46-9.34.1
openldap2 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP2All versions2.4.46-9.34.1
openldap2 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy 15 SP1All versions2.4.46-9.34.1
openldap2 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy 15 SP2All versions2.4.46-9.34.1
openldap2 openSUSE:Leap 15.1All versions2.4.46-lp151.10.15.1
openldap2 openSUSE:Leap 15.2All versions2.4.46-lp152.14.6.1

Products include Mcafee Policy Auditor, Openldap Openldap, Opensuse Leap, Oracle Blockchain Platform, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2020-15719?

Upgrade openldap to 2.4.46-10.el8 or later.

Is CVE-2020-15719 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-15719 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as BIT-openldap-2020-15719, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-15719, ECHO-131f-3301-69b0, GHSA-pg7h-v386-fw8h, RHBA-2019:3674, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2020-15719 and 3 more.

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