Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7, Red Hat Directory Server 8, and Fedora Directory Server 1.1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a…

Description

Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7, Red Hat Directory Server 8, and Fedora Directory Server 1.1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and search outage) via crafted LDAP search requests with patterns, related to a single-threaded regular-expression subsystem.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

6.6% · top 6.2% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (17)

• rhds-ldapsearch-dos(44733) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6078 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0602 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• SSRT080113 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
• http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/release-notes/7.1SP7/index.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 31702 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0596 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 31867 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2480 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 30871 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• FEDORA-2008-7891 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• RHSA-2008:0858 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 1020773 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454065 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 31565 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 31627 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2008-7813 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 09:21 UTC.