CVE-2020-26542

An issue was discovered in the MongoDB Simple LDAP plugin through 2020-10-02 for Percona Server when using the SimpleLDAP authentication in conjunction with Microsoft’s Active Directory, Percona has discovered a flaw that would allow authentication to complete when passing a blank value for the account password, leading to access against the service integrated with which Active Directory is deployed at the level granted to the authenticating account.

Date published : 2020-11-09

https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/10/13/percona-distribution-for-mysql-pxc-variant-8-0-20-fixes-for-security-vulnerability-release-roundup-october-13-2020/

https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-distribution-mysql/8.0/release-notes-pxc-v8.0.20.upd2.html