Security
Headlines
HeadlinesLatestCVEs

Headline

GHSA-p78h-m8pv-g9gm: Apereo CAS vulnerable to credential leaks for LDAP authentication

Apereo CAS is an open source multilingual single sign-on solution for the web. Apereo CAS can be configured to use authentication based on client X509 certificates. These certificates can be provided via TLS handshake or a special HTTP header, such as “ssl_client_cert”. When checking the validity of the provided client certificate, X509CredentialsAuthenticationHandler performs check that this certificate is not revoked. To do so, it fetches URLs provided in the “CRL Distribution Points” extension of the certificate, which are taken from the certificate itself and therefore can be controlled by a malicious user. If the CAS server is configured to use an LDAP server for x509 authentication with a password, for example by setting a “cas.authn.x509.ldap.ldap-url” and “cas.authn.x509.ldap.bind-credential” properties, X509CredentialsAuthenticationHandler fetches revocation URLs from the certificate, which can be LDAP urls. When making requests to this LDAP urls, Apereo CAS uses the same password as for initially configured LDAP server, which can lead to a password leak. An unauthenticated user can leak the password used to LDAP connection configured on server. This issue has been addressed in version 6.6.6. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

ghsa
#vulnerability#web#git#java#ldap#auth#maven#ssl

Package

maven org.apereo.cas:cas-server-support-x509-core (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 6.5.0, < 6.6.6

Patched versions

6.6.6

Description

Apereo CAS is an open source multilingual single sign-on solution for the web. Apereo CAS can be configured to use authentication based on client X509 certificates. These certificates can be provided via TLS handshake or a special HTTP header, such as “ssl_client_cert”. When checking the validity of the provided client certificate, X509CredentialsAuthenticationHandler performs check that this certificate is not revoked. To do so, it fetches URLs provided in the “CRL Distribution Points” extension of the certificate, which are taken from the certificate itself and therefore can be controlled by a malicious user. If the CAS server is configured to use an LDAP server for x509 authentication with a password, for example by setting a “cas.authn.x509.ldap.ldap-url” and “cas.authn.x509.ldap.bind-credential” properties, X509CredentialsAuthenticationHandler fetches revocation URLs from the certificate, which can be LDAP urls. When making requests to this LDAP urls, Apereo CAS uses the same password as for initially configured LDAP server, which can lead to a password leak. An unauthenticated user can leak the password used to LDAP connection configured on server. This issue has been addressed in version 6.6.6. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28857
  • https://apereo.github.io/2023/02/20/x509-vuln
  • https://github.com/apereo/cas/releases/tag/v6.6.6
  • https://github.com/graciantrivino/cas/blob/b90003f43a8ac0382d5416ceb01074feb936bf24/cas-server-support-x509/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/adaptors/x509/authentication/handler/support/X509CredentialsAuthenticationHandler.java#L231
  • https://securitylab.github.com/advisories
  • https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-009_Apereo_CAS

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Jun 27, 2023

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database

Aug 5, 2024

Reviewed

Aug 5, 2024

Last updated

Aug 5, 2024

Related news

CVE-2023-28857: Release v6.6.6 · apereo/cas

Apereo CAS is an open source multilingual single sign-on solution for the web. Apereo CAS can be configured to use authentication based on client X509 certificates. These certificates can be provided via TLS handshake or a special HTTP header, such as “ssl_client_cert”. When checking the validity of the provided client certificate, X509CredentialsAuthenticationHandler performs check that this certificate is not revoked. To do so, it fetches URLs provided in the “CRL Distribution Points” extension of the certificate, which are taken from the certificate itself and therefore can be controlled by a malicious user. If the CAS server is configured to use an LDAP server for x509 authentication with a password, for example by setting a “cas.authn.x509.ldap.ldap-url” and “cas.authn.x509.ldap.bind-credential” properties, X509CredentialsAuthenticationHandler fetches revocation URLs from the certificate, which can be LDAP urls. When making requests to this LDAP urls, Apereo CAS uses the same pass...