CVE-2011-0002

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-01-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

libuser before 0.57 uses a cleartext password value of (1) !! or (2) x for new LDAP user accounts, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by specifying one of these values.

Affected products

Miloslav Trmac Libuser: through 0.56.18; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+97)

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053365.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053378.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42891
http://secunia.com/advisories/42966
http://secunia.com/advisories/43047
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024960
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:019
http://www.osvdb.org/70421
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0170.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45791
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0184

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