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CVE-2017-11501

N/A
Published: July 20, 2017 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:01 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNixos

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%

Description

NixOS 17.03 and earlier has an unintended default absence of SSL Certificate Validation for LDAP. The users.ldap NixOS module implements user authentication against LDAP servers via a PAM module. It was found that if TLS is enabled to connect to the LDAP server with users.ldap.useTLS, peer verification will be unconditionally disabled in /etc/ldap.conf.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Nixos· Nixos Project
95%
v ≤ 17.03

Remediation

No guide yet

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Patch and advisory references

References (3)

x_refsource_CONFIRMMailing ListMitigationPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/20/1
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/27506
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/nix-security-announce/qrDU0KH_ZRk

CVSS

4.3MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-295

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