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CVE-2022-0996
A vulnerability was found in the 389 Directory Server that allows expired passwords to access the database to cause improper authentication.
Medium6.5EPSS 1.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
A vulnerability was found in the 389 Directory Server that allows expired passwords to access the database to cause improper authentication.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Impoper Authentication
- CWE-287 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-287 and its CVEs
Affected products
389-ds-base
- affected 1.4
References (6)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2064769 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/ByteHackr/389-ds-base (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-40544b5314 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-2558f14c58 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00026.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00015.html (opens in a new tab)
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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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2022-0996)Record last updated .