Detections
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CVE-2018-10871
high
Description
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://pagure.io/389-ds-base/issue/49789
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00032.html