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Richard N. Hillegas commented on DERBY-7147: -------------------------------------------- Thanks for that feedback, Bryan. Attaching derby-7147-03-ab-updateLDAPinstructions.diff and a corresponding tarball of generated output. This patch improves the wording of the boot instructions, as you recommended. Thanks for verifying that the ldaps protocol works. I will commit this patch in a couple days if there are no more comments. Touches the same files: {noformat} M src/security/cseccsecure863446.dita Changes to the "Setting up Derby to use your LDAP directory service" section. M src/security/csecldapbooting.dita Changes to the "Booting an LDAP server" section. {noformat} > LDAP injection vulnerability in LDAPAuthenticationImpl > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: DERBY-7147 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-7147 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: Bug > Components: JDBC > Affects Versions: 10.16.1.1 > Reporter: Richard N. Hillegas > Assignee: Richard N. Hillegas > Priority: Major > Attachments: derby-7147-01-aa-reformatForReadability.diff, > derby-7147-02-aa-escapeLDAPsearchFilter.diff, > derby-7147-02-ab-escapeLDAPsearchFilter.diff, > derby-7147-03-aa-updateLDAPinstructions.diff, > derby-7147-03-aa-updateLDAPinstructions.tar, > derby-7147-03-ab-updateLDAPinstructions.diff, > derby-7147-03-ab-updateLDAPinstructions.tar > > > An LDAP injection vulnerability has been identified in > LDAPAuthenticationSchemeImpl.getDNFromUID(). An exploit has not been > provided, but there is a possibility that an intruder could bypass > authentication checks in Derby-powered applications which rely on external > LDAP servers. > For more information on LDAP injection, see > https://www.synopsys.com/glossary/what-is-ldap-injection.html -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)