Insufficient salting in the net-ldap Ruby gem

[Pierre Carrier]

Hello,

SSHA passwords generated by the net-ldap Ruby gem use a salt between
"0" and "999", only providing 10 bits of entropy.

This is an attack vector, making attacks based on rainbow tables
significantly easier than with a strong salt.

https://github.com/ruby-ldap/ruby-net-ldap/blob/master/lib/net/ldap/password.rb#L29

This E-mail is sent to the current upstream maintainer and all vendors
that distribute a version of that gem.
Your version might not be affected; if not, sorry for the noise.

Best,

-- 
Pierre Carrier
Site Reliability Engineer, Airbnb