CVE-2016-6497

groovy: allows attackers to conduct LDAP entry poisoning attacks by leveraging setting returnObjFlag to true for all search methods

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · October 29, 2016

Updated · August 5, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in Groovy LDAP. The API in Apache allows attackers to conduct LDAP entry poisoning attacks by leveraging the returnObjFlag setting. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity.

Statement

The vulnerable class LDAP, is not found in OpenShift Container Platform's distribution of ElasticSearch.

Groovy as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 does not embed the LDAP class, and thus is not affected by this vulnerability.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE-358 · Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard