CVE-2017-11501

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.9
Exploit probability—
ProductNixos
PublishedJul 20, 2017
First seenJul 20, 2017

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
nixos_project nixosv ≤ 17.03—

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