CVE-2020-26542
highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.015 · 75 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
An issue was discovered in the MongoDB Simple LDAP plugin through 2020-10-02 for Percona Server when using the SimpleLDAP authentication in conjunction with Microsoft’s Active Directory, Percona has discovered a flaw that would allow authentication to complete when passing a blank value for the account password, leading to access against the service integrated with which Active Directory is deployed at the level granted to the authenticating account.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8
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affected products (2)
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references (15)
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- https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-7358cnnvd
- https://jira.percona.com/browse/PSMDB-726cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26542cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Percona-Server-for-MySQL-vulnerability-33572cnnvd
- https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/10/13/percona-distribution-for-mysql-pxc-variant-8-0-20-fixes-for-security-vulnerability-release-roundup-october-13-2020/cnnvd
- https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-distribution-mysql/8.0/release-notes-pxc-v8.0.20.upd2.htmlcnnvd
- https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server-for-mongodb/4.4/release_notes/4.4.1-3.htmlPatchcnnvd
- https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-7358enisa_euvd
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