High severity · published May 18, 2021
CVE-2020-25709
A flaw was found in OpenLDAP
7.5
CVSS
3.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in OpenLDAP. This flaw allows an attacker who can send a malicious packet to be processed by OpenLDAP’s slapd server, to trigger an assertion failure. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/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)3.4% · higher than 89% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MA
macOS · Apple
11.0 before 11.0.1 · source: NVD
OP
OpenLDAP ·
openldap 2.4.56 · source: vendor, NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
JC
Jboss Core Services · Redhat
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
MO
Mac OS X · Apple
10.14.0 before 10.14.6; 10.15 before 10.15.7; 10.14.6; 10.14.6; 10.14.6; 10.14.6; +12 more · source: NVD
SS
SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP · Siemens
V3.1.0 before V3.1.5; V3.1.0 before V3.1.5 · source: CISA
SS
SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP · Siemens
V3.1.0 before V3.1.5; V3.1.0 before V3.1.5 · source: CISA
SS
SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP · Siemens
V3.1.0 before V3.1.5 · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-25709
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-25709
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Feb/14
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1899675
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210716-0003/
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