Vulnerability CVE-2018-14648
Published: 2018-09-28

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.

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
Fedoraproject -> 389 directory server 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3127
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3507
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14648
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00015.html
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