CVE-2012-2678

Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

389 Directory Server before 1.2.11.6 (aka Red Hat Directory Server before 8.2.10-3), after the password for a LDAP user has been changed and before the server has been reset, allows remote attackers to read the plaintext password via the unhashed#user#password attribute.

Affected products

Red Hat, Inc. 389-ds-base: through 1.2.11.5; 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.5, 1.2.5-rc1, 1.2.5-rc2 (+31)
RedHat Directory Server: through 8.2; 7.1, 8.0, 8.1

References

http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Notes
http://osvdb.org/83336
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0997.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1041.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49734
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54153
https://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c03772083
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19353
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Release_Notes
http://osvdb.org/83336
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0997.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1041.html

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