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CVE-2023-38994

Published: Oct 31, 2023

Modified: Apr 15, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.9

HIGH

Description

The 'check_univention_joinstatus' prometheus monitoring script (and other scripts) in UCS 5.0-5 revealed the LDAP plaintext password of the machine account in the process list allowing attackers with local ssh access to gain higher privileges and perform followup attacks. By default, the configuration of UCS does not allow local ssh access for regular users.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:L/A:N/C:H/I:H/PR:H/S:C/UI:N

Attack Complexity

Low

Attack Vector

Local

Availability

None

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Privileges Required

High

Scope

Changed

User Interaction

None

References

https://forge.univention.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56324

https://www.drive-byte.de/en/blog/simple-yet-effective-the-story-of-some-simple-bugs-that-led-to-the-complete-compromise-of-a-network

https://forge.univention.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56324#c0

https://raeph123.github.io/BlogPosts/Univention/Simple_yet_effective_The_story_of_some_simple_bugs_that_led_to_the_complete_compromise_of_a_network_en.html

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