High severity · published Jan 25, 2021
CVE-2020-36230
A flaw was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading in an assertion failure in slapd in the X.509 DN parsing in decode.c ber_next_element, resulting in denial of service
7.5
CVSS
12.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading in an assertion failure in slapd in the X.509 DN parsing in decode.c ber_next_element, resulting in denial of service.
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)12.1% · higher than 96% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MA
macOS · Apple
11.1 before 11.4 · source: NVD
BO
Bookkeeper · Apache
4.12.1 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
MO
Mac OS X · Apple
10.14.0 before 10.14.6; 10.14.6; 10.14.6; 10.14.6; 10.14.6; 10.14.6; +12 more · source: NVD
OP
Openldap · Openldap
before 2.4.57 · 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-2020-36230
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-36230
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/64
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/65
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/70
Issue Tracking
https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9423
Patch
https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/8c1d96ee36ed98b32cd0e28b7069c7b8ea09d793
Release Notes
https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/tags/OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_57
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