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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2022-37397

When anonymous or unauthenticated LDAP binding is enabled, it allows bypass of authentication with an empty password.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 0.89%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.89%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in the YugabyteDB 2.6.1 when using LDAP-based authentication in YCQL with Microsoft’s Active Directory. When anonymous or unauthenticated LDAP binding is enabled, it allows bypass of authentication with an empty password.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.89% probability · 57th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-16, CWE-287
Affected
yugabyte/yugabytedb
Source
security@yugabyte.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.