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Title: Fedora Directory Server Password Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Severity: HIGH

Description:

Fedora Directory Server is a world-class directory-server implementation, designed to manage large directories of users and resources.

Fedora Directory Server is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to do proper access validation before granting access to sensitive and privileged information.

The application allows an unauthorized user to view the administrative password, which is stored in the 'adm.conf' file. An HTML 'IFRAME' tag contains this information, and may be disclosed without requiring any authentication.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to obtain escalated privileges within the context of the server application. Information obtained may aid in further attacks against the underlying system; other attacks are also possible.

Affected Products:

  • RedHat Fedora Directory Server 1.0

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