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CVE-2017-11501

NixOS 17.03 and earlier has an unintended default absence of SSL Certificate Validation for LDAP. The users.ldap NixOS module implements user authentication against LDAP servers via a PAM module. It was found that if TLS is enabled to connect to the LDAP server with users.ldap.useTLS, peer verification will be unconditionally disabled in /etc/ldap.conf.

  • Published: Jul 20, 2017
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2017-11501
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.3
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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Software From Fixed in
nixos_project / nixos - 17.03.x