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Defect #4483

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LDAP authentication with Redmine doesn't return an error when credentials used to bind to LDAP are incorrect

Added by Joe Heck almost 15 years ago. Updated about 4 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
LDAP
Target version:
-
Start date:
2009-12-24
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Resolution:
Affected version:
0.8.7

Description

When incorrect credentials are used in LDAP authentication with Redmine, the search mechanism will always silently fail because the code in 0.8.7 doesn't check for bind success before searching.

I'm using ruby 1.8.5, rails 2.1.2, passenger 2.2.8, redmine 0.8.7, MySQL 5, on RHEL5.

I added the debugging line:

logger.debug "Connection #{ldap_con} bind result was #{ldap_con.bind}" if logger && logger.debug?

to the code at /app/models/auth_source_ldap.rb to identify that the error occuring was incorrect credentials. However, silent failure seems to be a bug, especially since the "test" link on the auth_sources page appeared to work correctly.

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SettingLDAP.png (95.5 KB) SettingLDAP.png Yuichi HARADA, 2020-11-24 06:09
fixed-4483.patch (2.65 KB) fixed-4483.patch Yuichi HARADA, 2020-11-24 06:17
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 #1

Updated by Mischa The Evil almost 15 years ago

  • Category set to LDAP
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 #2

Updated by Yuriy Taraday about 14 years ago

I've just ran over the very same problem. I suggest change code of AuthSourceLdap.test_connection to something like this:

  def test_connection
    ldap_con = initialize_ldap_con(self.account, self.account_password)
    if not ldap_con.bind
      raise "Failed to bind to LDAP server." 
  rescue  Net::LDAP::LdapError => text
    raise "LdapError: " + text
  end

This will make Test button to show error when you provide bad bind credentials, not just write success.

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Updated by Alexander Ryabinovskiy about 10 years ago

I confirm, Redmine version 2.5.2.
Only after research in WireShark I saw the error:
LDAPMessage bindResponse(1) invalidCredentials (80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C090334, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 531, vece)
which means "not permitted to logon at this workstation".
Redmine always reports "Success".

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Updated by Yuichi HARADA about 4 years ago

Joe Heck wrote:

However, silent failure seems to be a bug, especially since the "test" link on the auth_sources page appeared to work correctly.

I think the reason the test connection was successful is that you didn't enter your account or password.

Alternatively, the test connection will succeed even when the Dynamic Bind Account is set for the account.
RedmineLDAP

I think the following patch will solve it.

diff --git a/app/models/auth_source_ldap.rb b/app/models/auth_source_ldap.rb
index 7adbf45bc..3642b3b31 100644
--- a/app/models/auth_source_ldap.rb
+++ b/app/models/auth_source_ldap.rb
@@ -71,10 +71,9 @@ class AuthSourceLdap < AuthSource
     with_timeout do
       ldap_con = initialize_ldap_con(self.account, self.account_password)
       ldap_con.open {}
-      if self.account.present? && !self.account.include?("$login") && self.account_password.present?
-        ldap_auth = authenticate_dn(self.account, self.account_password)
-        raise AuthSourceException.new(l(:error_ldap_bind_credentials)) if !ldap_auth
-      end
+      return if self.account.present? && self.account.include?("$login")
+      ldap_auth = authenticate_dn(self.account, self.account_password)
+      raise AuthSourceException.new(l(:error_ldap_bind_credentials)) if !ldap_auth
     end
   rescue *NETWORK_EXCEPTIONS => e
     raise AuthSourceException.new(e.message)
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