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CVE-2017-11501
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-07-20T23:29:00.247 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:01:54.237

Summary

NixOS 17.03 and earlier has an unintended default absence of SSL Certificate Validation for LDAP. The users.ldap NixOS module implements user authentication against LDAP servers via a PAM module. It was found that if TLS is enabled to connect to the LDAP server with users.ldap.useTLS, peer verification will be unconditionally disabled in /etc/ldap.conf.

Affected products

nixos_project — nixos

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References

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