[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0076] Ensure that a password exists after OTP validation

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 22:22:16 +0200
Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> >Before this patch users could log in using only the OTP value. This
> >arose because ipapwd_authentication() successfully determined that
> >an empty password was invalid, but 389 itself would see this as an
> >anonymous bind. An anonymous bind would never even get this far in
> >this code, so we simply deny requests with empty passwords.
> >
> >This patch resolves CVE-2014-7828.
> >
> >https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4690
> ACK.

Code sounds good, but I haven't tested it.

> We need to do release for 4.0 and 4.1 first thing tomorrow.

Yes.

> A possible workaround is to disable 2FA for users in mean time.

We should send a warning to freeipa-users mailing list that we are
preparing a release and they should consider disabling 2FA ion the
meanwhile if they are using it.

Simo.

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