Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IQ Platform
Known Affected Versions:
6.0.1, 6.0.1.1, 6.0.1.2, 6.1.0
Opened: Jan 23, 2019 Severity: 4-Minor
When a BIG-IQ user is authenticated against an LDAP auth provider, the auth provider retrieves from the LDAP directory all the groups the user is a member of, to determine authorization. If the directory is very large, the query returns a large amount of data, therefore the operation may be slow, leading to a slow authentication.
Slow authentication.
The external LDAP directory contains a large number of entries, specifically user groups, which are themselves large.
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