CVE-2005-2069: Padl Nss LDAP

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pam_ldap and nss_ldap, when used with OpenLDAP and connecting to a slave using TLS, does not use TLS for the subsequent connection if the client is referred to a master, which may cause a password to be sent in cleartext and allows remote attackers to sniff the password.

Affected products

  • Padl Nss LDAP: affected versions not specified
  • Padl Pam LDAP: affected versions not specified

Published 2005-06-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.