CVE-2018-10871

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    CVE-2018-10871

    Published: 18 Jul 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 389-ds-base before versions 1.3.8.5, 1.4.0.12 is vulnerable to a Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. By default, when the Replica and/or retroChangeLog plugins are enabled, 389-ds-base stores passwords in plaintext format in their respective changelog files. An attacker with sufficiently high privileges, such as root or Directory Manager, can query these files in order to retrieve plaintext passwords.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00032.html, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3401, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10871, https://pagure.io/389-ds-base/issue/49789

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High