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CVE-2017-17716 (GCVE-0-2017-17716)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-17 17:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:17
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Summary
GitLab 9.4.x before 9.4.2 does not support LDAP SSL certificate verification, but a verify_certificates LDAP option was mentioned in the 9.4 release announcement. This issue occurred because code was not merged. This is related to use of the omniauth-ldap library and the gitlab_omniauth-ldap gem.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
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