CVE-2018-12421 — LTB (aka LDAP Tool Box) Self Service Password before 1

LTB (aka LDAP Tool Box) Self Service Password before 1.3 allows a change to a user password (without knowing the old password) via a crafted POST request, because the ldap_bind return value is mishandled and the PHP data type is not constrained to be a string.

01What is this vulnerability?

LTB (aka LDAP Tool Box) Self Service Password before 1.3 allows a change to a user password (without knowing the old password) via a crafted POST request, because the ldap_bind return value is mishandled and the PHP data type is not constrained to be a string.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-06-14T19:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-17T03:03:34.150Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/ltb-project/self-service-password/issues/211
• lists.ltb-project.org — https://lists.ltb-project.org/pipermail/ltb-announce/2018-June/000023.html
• github.com — https://github.com/ltb-project/self-service-password/issues/209