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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

CVE-2023-23749

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

The 'LDAP Integration with Active Directory and OpenLDAP - NTLM & Kerberos Login' extension is vulnerable to LDAP Injection since is not properly sanitizing the 'username' POST parameter. An attacker can manipulate this paramter to dump arbitrary contents form the LDAP Database.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-74 - Injection

Listed as the number one web application security risk on the 'OWASP Top Ten', injection attacks are widespread and dangerous, especially in legacy applications. Injection attacks are a class of vulnerabilities in which an attacker injects untrusted data into a web application that gets processed by an interpreter, altering the program's execution. This can result in data loss/theft, loss of data integrity, denial of service, and even compromising the entire system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published