LDAPAccountManager LAM up to 8.6 injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in LDAPAccountManager LAM up to 8.6. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to injection. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-23333. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in LDAPAccountManager LAM up to 8.6. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

LDAP Account Manager (LAM) is a webfrontend for managing entries stored in an LDAP directory. LAM's log configuration allows to specify arbitrary paths for log files. Prior to version 8.7, an attacker could exploit this by creating a PHP file and cause LAM to log some PHP code to this file. When the file is then accessed via web the code would be executed. The issue is mitigated by the following: An attacker needs to know LAM's master configuration password to be able to change the main settings; and the webserver needs write access to a directory that is accessible via web. LAM itself does not provide any such directories. The issue has been fixed in 8.7. As a workaround, limit access to LAM configuration pages to authorized users.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-23333 since 01/15/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1055 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 230759 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-52792), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 8.7 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (230759). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Directory Service Software

Vendor

• LDAPAccountManager

Name

• LAM

Version

• 8.0
• 8.1
• 8.2
• 8.3
• 8.4
• 8.5
• 8.6

Website

• Product: https://github.com/LDAPAccountManager/lam/

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