Vulnerability record/PUBLISHED/Published Aug 14, 2026 22:43:02 UTC

CVE-2026-74241

A flaw was found in Red Hat Quay's external Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication handling. When an LDAP referral is returned during authentication, the system does not properly escape the username input. This allows an attacker to inject LDAP filter metacharacters, enabling user-existence oracle attacks at the referral Directory Name (DN). This could also potentially influence which DN is used for password binding in multi-domain Active Directory environments.

Base score4.8/ 10

SeverityMediumCVSS 3.1

Exploitability / impact

CVSS metric breakdown

Vector-derived attributes

Base severityMedium

Attack vectorNetworkAV

Attack complexityHighAC

Privileges requiredNonePR

User interactionNoneUI

ScopeUnchangedS

Confidentiality impactLowC

Integrity impactLowI

Availability impactNoneA

CVSS vector stringCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Record context

CVE Numbering Authorityredhat

Last updatedNov 1, 2026 05:03:02 UTC

PublishedAug 14, 2026 22:43:02 UTC

ReservedAug 14, 2026 19:46:37 UTC

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank meifukun (https://github.com/meifukun) for reporting this issue.