Access Restriction Bypass Affecting github.com/go-ldap/ldap package, versions <2.5.0


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.17% (53rd percentile)
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NVD
8.1 high
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Red Hat
5.6 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMGOLDAPLDAP-50053
  • published 17 Oct 2017
  • disclosed 23 Aug 2017
  • credit Tiziano Santoro

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Overview

github.com/go-ldap/ldap is a basic LDAP v3 functionality for the GO programming language.

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass.

In the ldap.v2 (aka go-ldap) package through 2.5.0 for Go, an attacker may be able to login with an empty password. This issue affects an application using this package if these conditions are met: (1) it relies only on the return error of the Bind function call to determine whether a user is authorized (i.e., a nil return value is interpreted as successful authorization) and (2) it is used with an LDAP server allowing unauthenticated bind.