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CVE-2020-26542

Published: Nov 9, 2020Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-287
NVD MITRE
9.8CVSSCRITICAL
EPSS Score
1.5%
Top 28.7%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

An issue was discovered in the MongoDB Simple LDAP plugin through 2020-10-02 for Percona Server when using the SimpleLDAP authentication in conjunction with Microsoft’s Active Directory, Percona has discovered a flaw that would allow authentication to complete when passing a blank value for the account password, leading to access against the service integrated with which Active Directory is deployed at the level granted to the authenticating account.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-287

Affected Products

n/an/a
percona serverpercona
On-prem
Databases / relational
perconacommercialUSDatabases

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Initial Access
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References

https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/10/13/percona-distribution-for-mysql-pxc-variant-8-0-20-fixes-for-security-vulnerability-release-roundup-october-13-2020/
percona.com
https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-7358
jira.percona.com
https://jira.percona.com/browse/PSMDB-726
jira.percona.com
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Timeline

Published
Nov 9, 2020
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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