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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2024-52792 EUVD-2024-46200

Arbitrary config values override in lam

Published Dec 17, 2024 · Updated Dec 18, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

LDAP Account Manager (LAM) is a php webfrontend for managing entries (e.g. users, groups, DHCP settings) stored in an LDAP directory. In affected versions LAM does not properly sanitize configuration values, that are set via `mainmanage.php` and `confmain.php`. This allows setting arbitrary config values and thus effectively bypassing `mitigation` of CVE-2024-23333/GHSA-fm9w-7m7v-wxqv. Configuration values for the main config or server profiles are set via `mainmanage.php` and `confmain.php`.
The values are written to `config.cfg` or `serverprofile.conf` in the format of `settingsName: settingsValue` line-by-line.
An attacker can smuggle arbitrary config values in a config file, by inserting a newline into certain config fields, followed by the value. This vulnerability has been addressed in version 9.0. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
LDAPAccountManager lam < 9.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 ldap-account-manager 9.0-1 —
Debian 13 ldap-account-manager 9.0-1 —
Debian 12 ldap-account-manager No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ldap-account-manager No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 ldap-account-manager No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ldap-account-manager No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ldap-account-manager No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ldap-account-manager No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ldap-account-manager No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ldap-account-manager No fix yet —

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