Tickets :: [#9130] Invalid characters allowed in new password

6.0.0-alpha12

6/13/25

Summary	Invalid characters allowed in new password
Queue	Passwd
Queue Version	3.1
Type	Enhancement
State	Resolved
Priority	2. Medium
Owners	jan (at) horde (dot) org
Requester	Valentin.Vidic (at) carnet (dot) hr
Created	07/08/2010 (5454 days ago)
Due
Updated	10/25/2010 (5345 days ago)
Assigned
Resolved	10/25/2010 (5345 days ago)
Milestone
Patch	Yes

10/25/2010 12:48:28 PM	Jan Schneider	State ⇒ Resolved

10/25/2010 12:47:39 PM	CVS Commit	Comment #6	Reply to this comment
Changes have been made in CVS for this ticket: Fix class name (~~Bug #9130~~). http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/passwd/main.php?rt=horde&r1=1.67.2.11&r2=1.67.2.12&ty=u

10/25/2010 12:40:54 PM	Valentin (dot) Vidic (at) carnet (dot) hr	Comment #5	Reply to this comment
I slightly changed it to not allow multi-byte characters at all. Please test. Trying to change password produces the following error: Fatal error: Class 'Horde_String' not found in passwd/main.php on line 92 But after changing the call to String::length($new_password0) it seems to work - UTF8 chars are not allowed in the password.

10/21/2010 04:34:18 PM	Jan Schneider	Comment #4 Assigned to Jan Schneider State ⇒ Feedback	Reply to this comment
I slightly changed it to not allow multi-byte characters at all. Please test.

10/21/2010 04:33:35 PM	CVS Commit	Comment #3	Reply to this comment
Changes have been made in CVS for this ticket: [jan] Verify that new passwords don't contain any invalid (non-ascii) characters (Valentin Vidic, ~~Request #9130~~). http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/passwd/docs/CHANGES?rt=horde&r1=1.79.2.42&r2=1.79.2.43&ty=u http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/passwd/main.php?rt=horde&r1=1.67.2.10&r2=1.67.2.11&ty=u http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/passwd/po/passwd.pot?rt=horde&r1=1.30.2.11&r2=1.30.2.12&ty=u

10/21/2010 04:26:14 PM	CVS Commit	Comment #2	Reply to this comment
Changes have been made in CVS for this ticket: [jan] Verify that new passwords don't contain any invalid (non-ascii) characters (Valentin Vidic, ~~Request #9130~~). http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/passwd/docs/CHANGES?rt=horde&r1=1.119&r2=1.120&ty=u http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/passwd/main.php?rt=horde&r1=1.84&r2=1.85&ty=u

07/08/2010 03:44:43 PM	Valentin (dot) Vidic (at) carnet (dot) hr	Comment #1 Priority ⇒ 2. Medium Type ⇒ Enhancement Summary ⇒ Invalid characters allowed in new password Queue ⇒ Passwd Milestone ⇒ Patch ⇒ Yes New Attachment: passwd.diff State ⇒ New	Reply to this comment
Passwd doesn't check if the new password contains characters other than alpha, num, space and symbol so some of our users ended up with passwords containing UTF8 characters. Since passwords are often used in various different applications this is not a good idea. Attached is a patch that introduces a counter for characters not matched by other ctype classes. In addition to this password charset has to be taken into account in order to split into characters correctly.