Possible Kolab LDAP configuration information disclosure

Martin Konold martin.konold at erfrakon.de
Tue Apr 20 14:30:03 CEST 2004


Am Tuesday 20 April 2004 02:06 pm schrieb Luca Villani:

Hi Luca,

> I think there is an information disclosure in slapd configuration file:
>
> 	/var/origkolab/etc/openldap/slapd.conf

What are the access permissions on this file?

>
> Here the rootdn password is stored in cleartext, like this:
>
> 	rootpw		"averystrongpassword"

> 	Re-enter new password:
> 	{SSHA}T++o7gQdMj1b1u4pjlJ57Ei0qbAbGje2

What do you gain? The above encoded pw can also be used to replay...

Yours,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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