Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package 389-ds-base-libs (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-389DSBASELIBS-1385016
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed18 Jun 2018
Introduced: 18 Jun 2018
CVE-2018-10871 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream 389-ds-base-libs package and not the 389-ds-base-libs package as distributed by RHEL.
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.