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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.8 High

CVE-2026-49268

Apache Shiro: LDAP DN Injection in DefaultLdapRealm

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Apache Software Foundation Apache Shiro

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to ≤ 2.2.0affected
  • 3.0.0-alpha-0 to ≤ 3.0.0-alpha-1affected

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