{"id":"CVE-2009-2457","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2009-2457","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:38:24.357Z","title":"The DS\\NDSD component in Novell eDirectory 8.8 before SP5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed bind LDAP packet.","description":"The DS\\NDSD component in Novell eDirectory 8.8 before SP5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed bind LDAP packet.","published":"2009-07-14T20:30:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:09:29.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-94"],"affected":["novell/edirectory"],"epss":{"score":0.02418,"percentile":0.84045,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://osvdb.org/55849","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/34160","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35666","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1883","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51706","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/55849","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/34160","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35666","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1883","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51706","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2457","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}