389-ds-base before versions 1.3.8.5, 1.4.0.12 is vulnerable to a Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. By default, when the Replica…

Description

389-ds-base before versions 1.3.8.5, 1.4.0.12 is vulnerable to a Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information. By default, when the Replica and/or retroChangeLog plugins are enabled, 389-ds-base stores passwords in plaintext format in their respective changelog files. An attacker with sufficiently high privileges, such as root or Directory Manager, can query these files in order to retrieve plaintext passwords.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.8.

Weakness

• CWE-312 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-312 and its CVEs

Affected products

• [UNKNOWN] · 389-ds-base

  • affected 389-ds-base 1.3.8.5
  • affected 389-ds-base 1.4.0.12

References (4)

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10871 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://pagure.io/389-ds-base/issue/49789 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [debian-lts-announce] 20180830 [SECURITY] [DLA 1483-1] 389-ds-base security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• RHSA-2019:3401 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2018-10871](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2018-10871.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2018-10871)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 07:46 UTC.