Vulnerability in Openldap

CVE-2011-1024

chain.c in back-ldap in OpenLDAP 2.4.x before 2.4.24, when a master-slave configuration with a chain overlay and ppolicy_forward_updates (aka authentication-failure forwarding) is used, allows remote authenticated users to bypass external-program authentication by sending an invalid password to a slave server.

EPSS: 0.026 (83.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Openldap — versions 2.4.6, 2.4.7, 2.4.8
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References