A vulnerability has been found in Barracuda Load Balancer up to 6.4 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the component LDAP Service Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-522. The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Authenticated, administrative access to a Barracuda Load Balancer ADC running unpatched firmware <= v6.4 allows one to edit the LDAP service configuration of the balancer and change the LDAP server to an attacker-controlled system, without having to re-enter LDAP credentials. These steps can be used by any authenticated administrative user to expose the LDAP credentials configured in the LDAP connector over the network.

The weakness was released 03/12/2020. This vulnerability was named CVE-2019-5648 since 01/07/2019. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a single authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1552 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Barracuda

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• Load Balancer

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• 6.0
• 6.1
• 6.2
• 6.3
• 6.4

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• commercial

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