Improper Certificate Validation Affecting edu.vt.middleware:vt-ldap package, versions [3.3.5, 3.3.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-EDUVTMIDDLEWARE-30091
  • published25 Dec 2016
  • disclosed10 Sept 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Sep 2014

CVE-2014-3607  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade edu.vt.middleware:vt-ldap to version 3.3.8 or higher.

Overview

edu.vt.middleware:vt-ldap is a Library for performing common LDAP operations.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation. It was discovered that the implementation used by the vtldap/ldaptive project to check that the server hostname matches the domain name in the subject's CN field was flawed. This can be exploited by a Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, where the attacker can spoof a valid certificate using a specially crafted subject.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1