CVE-2024-52792CWE-610

Arbitrary config values override in lam

Medium · published December 17, 2024

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
52.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00705 · 52.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-610 · Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere
Published
2024-12-17T21:46Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 DEC 21:46Z
    Arbitrary config values override in lam
    cvelistv5