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CVE-2026-49268GHSA-X96M-RH44-VGV8

Apache Shiro: LDAP DN Injection in DefaultLdapRealm

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.2.1, 3.0.0-alpha-2
2 proofs of concept on GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

A remote attacker can inject LDAP special characters into the Distinguished Name (DN) construction in DefaultLdapRealm class. User-supplied username input is directly concatenated into the LDAP DN template without any escaping of RFC 2253 special characters. This allows an attacker to manipulate the DN structure used for LDAP bind authentication, potentially bypassing authentication or impersonating other users. This issue affects all Apache Shiro versions through 2.2.0, and 3.0.0-alpha-1 when using DefaultLdapRealm Upgrade to Apache Shiro 2.2.1 or 3.0.0-alpha-2 or later, which fixes the issue.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • org.apache.shiro:shiro-core

    through 2.2.0; From 3.0.0-alpha-0 · through 3.0.0-alpha-1

  • org.apache.shiro:shiro-coreMaven

    fixed in 2.2.1

  • org.apache.shiro:shiro-coreMaven

    From 3.0.0-alpha-0 · fixed in 3.0.0-alpha-2

References 3

lists.apache.org

GitHub · sassoftware/shiro

GitHub · xiaoqiMikko/shiro-check