High severity · published Sep 28, 2018
CVE-2018-14648
A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server
7.5
CVSS
7.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. A specially crafted search query could lead to excessive CPU consumption in the do_search() function. An unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to provoke a denial of service.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)7.2% · higher than 94% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
3D
389 Directory Server · Fedoraproject
before 1.4.0.17 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14648
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14648
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3127
Issue Tracking
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3507
Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14648
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00015.html
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