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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-15135

A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to bypass the authentication process under very rare and specific circumstances.

HIGH 8.1EPSS 3.83%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.83%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

It was found that 389-ds-base since 1.3.6.1 up to and including 1.4.0.3 did not always handle internal hash comparison operations correctly during the authentication process. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to bypass the authentication process under very rare and specific circumstances.

CVSS 3.0
8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
3.83% probability · 89th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-287
Affected
fedoraproject/389 directory server
Source
secalert@redhat.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.