Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU20064

Resource exhaustion in 389-ds-base - CVE-2019-10171

Published: August 13, 2019

Vulnerability identifier: #VU20064

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10171

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for SB2018091804 (CVE-2018-14648) in RHEL 7.5. A remote attacker can still trigger resource exhaustion.

Affected software

389-ds-base
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node

How to mitigate CVE-2019-10171

Install updates from vendor's website.

389-ds-base - update to 1.4.0.17

External References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-10171

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