CVE-2022-1949 Auth bypass in 389-ds-base

What is CVE-2022-1949?

CVE-2022-1949 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 1 Jun 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An access control bypass vulnerability found in 389-ds-base. That mishandling of the filter that would yield incorrect results, but as that has progressed, can be determined that it actually is an access control bypass. This may allow any remote unauthenticated user to issue a filter that allows searching for database items they do not have access to, including but not limited to potentially userPassword hashes and other sensitive data.

Weakness: CWE-639

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1949?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Redhat 389 Directory Server, Redhat Directory Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2022-1949?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2022-1949 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1949 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1949, GHSA-x847-vxvj-g6rj, MGASA-2022-0239, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1949, openSUSE-SU-2024:12113-1.