🛡️ CVE-2014-0083 — net-ldap

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-916 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

net-ldap has weak salt when generating passwords

The Ruby net-ldap gem before 0.16.2 uses a weak salt when generating SSHA passwords.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2014-0083 is classified as CWE-916: Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort. Passwords are hashed with a function fast enough to make large-scale guessing practical.

Affected software

CVE-2014-0083 is recorded against 1 package.

  • net-ldap (fixed in 0.16.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
bugzilla.suse.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
security-tracker.debian.org (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-916
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
net-ldap — 0.16.2

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