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CVE-2009-3862

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-287 Authentication Issues
Publication date:
04/11/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The NDSD process in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 before 8.7.3.10 ftf2 and eDirectory 8.8 before 8.8.5 ftf1 does not properly handle certain LDAP search requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via a search request with a NULL BaseDN value.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.7.3:sp2:windows:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.7.3:sp3:windows:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.7.3:sp4:windows:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.7.3:sp5:windows:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.7.3:sp6:windows:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.7.3:sp7:windows:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.7.3:sp8:windows:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.7.3:sp9:windows:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.7.3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.7.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.8:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.8:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.8:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*

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