The software is vulnerable when using LDAP-based authentication in YCQL with Microsoft’s Active Directory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-37397",
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    "title": "The software is vulnerable when using LDAP-based authentication in YCQL with Microsoft’s Active Directory",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in the YugabyteDB 2.6.1 when using LDAP-based authentication in YCQL with Microsoft’s Active Directory. When anonymous or unauthenticated LDAP binding is enabled, it allows bypass of authentication with an empty password.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:50.911586346Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.yugabyte.com/",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/37xxx/CVE-2022-37397.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37397"
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          "CWE-287"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 519528,
  "published_at": "2022-08-12T18:01:37+00:00"
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