CVE-2022-37397

HIGH

YugabyteDB 2.6.1 - Unauthenticated Authentication Bypass via Empty Password in LDAP with Active Directory

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in the YugabyteDB 2.6.1 when using LDAP-based authentication in YCQL with Microsoft’s Active Directory. When anonymous or unauthenticated LDAP binding is enabled, it allows bypass of authentication with an empty password.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.yugabyte.com/

Scores

CVSS v3 8.3
EPSS 0.0077
EPSS Percentile 50.7%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-16 CWE-287
Status published
Products (1)
yugabyte/yugabytedb 2.6.1
Published Aug 12, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026