{"id":"CVE-2017-14623","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-14623","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:21:01.427Z","title":"In the ldap.v2 (aka go-ldap) package through 2.5.0 for Go, an attacker may be able to login with an empty password.","description":"In the ldap.v2 (aka go-ldap) package through 2.5.0 for Go, an attacker may be able to login with an empty password. This issue affects an application using this package if these conditions are met: (1) it relies only on the return error of the Bind function call to determine whether a user is authorized (i.e., a nil return value is interpreted as successful authorization) and (2) it is used with an LDAP server allowing unauthenticated bind.","published":"2017-09-20T23:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:06:30.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-287"],"affected":["go-ldap project/ldap"],"epss":{"score":0.01685,"percentile":0.76888,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.69%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/go-ldap/ldap/commit/95ede1266b237bf8e9aa5dce0b3250e51bfefe66","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-ldap/ldap/pull/126","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-ldap/ldap/commit/95ede1266b237bf8e9aa5dce0b3250e51bfefe66","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/go-ldap/ldap/pull/126","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14623","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}