CVE-2023-1055

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-02-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

A flaw was found in RHDS 11 and RHDS 12. While browsing entries LDAP tries to decode the userPassword attribute instead of the userCertificate attribute which could lead into sensitive information leaked. An attacker with a local account where the cockpit-389-ds is running can list the processes and display the hashed passwords. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 36, 37, 38
RedHat Directory Server: 11.5, 11.6, 12.0, 12.1

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2173517#c0
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MZOYQ5TCV6ZEPMDV4CSLK3KINAAO4SRI/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2173517#c0
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MZOYQ5TCV6ZEPMDV4CSLK3KINAAO4SRI/

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