A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Forman up to 1.7.3. This issue affects an unknown code of the component SSL Certificate Handler. The manipulation as part of a LDAP Connection leads to a cryptographic issues vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-310. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Forman before 1.7.4 does not verify SSL certificates for LDAP connections, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof LDAP servers via a crafted certificate.

The weakness was shared 08/14/2015 (Website). The advisory is shared at groups.google.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-1816 since 02/17/2015. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1600 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 85715 (RHEL 7 : Satellite Server (RHSA-2015:1591)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks.

Upgrading to version 1.7.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (85715). The entries 76304, 77251, 77253 and 77254 are related to this item.

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