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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-2069 Detail

Description

pam_ldap and nss_ldap, when used with OpenLDAP and connecting to a slave using TLS, does not use TLS for the subsequent connection if the client is referred to a master, which may cause a password to be sent in cleartext and allows remote attackers to sniff the password.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-07/0060.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96767 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=210 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=211 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/17233 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/17845 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/21520 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-157.htm CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200507-13.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=3791 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.osvdb.org/17692 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-751.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-767.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14125 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14126 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-152-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:121 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161990 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21245 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9445 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2005-2069
NVD Published Date:
06/30/2005
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.