Plaintext Transmission of User Credentials in RBAC LDAP with startTLS in Puppet Enterprise

Plaintext Transmission of User Credentials in RBAC LDAP with startTLS in Puppet Enterprise

CVE-2018-11749 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

When users are configured to use startTLS with RBAC LDAP, at login time, the user's credentials are sent via plaintext to the LDAP server. This affects Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.3, 2017.3.9, and 2016.4.14, and is fixed in Puppet Enterprise 2018.1.4, 2017.3.10, and 2016.4.15. It scored an 8.5 CVSS score.

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