{"id":81727,"date":"2026-07-09T10:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-47840-ldap-starttls-unconditionally-disables-hostname-verification\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:16:24","slug":"cve-2026-47840-ldap-starttls-unconditionally-disables-hostname-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-47840-ldap-starttls-unconditionally-disables-hostname-verification\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-47840 &#8211; LDAP StartTLS unconditionally disables hostname verification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-47840<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 9, 2026, 7:16 a.m. | 32\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :A network attacker positioned between UAA and its LDAP directory can impersonate the directory using any certificate from any trusted CA, then harvest the LDAP bind password and every end-user password sent during simple-bind authentication, and return forged group memberships that grant themselves admin scopes. This affects every deployment that authenticates users against LDAP over StartTLS.<br \/>\nAffected versions: UAA versions prior to v78.13.0; Cf-deployment versions prior to v56.2.0.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 9.3 | CRITICAL<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-47840 Published : July 9, 2026, 7:16 a.m. | 32\u00a0minutes ago Description :A network attacker positioned between UAA and its LDAP directory can impersonate the directory using any certificate from any trusted CA, then harvest the LDAP bind password and every end-user password sent during simple-bind authentication, and return forged group memberships that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}