{"id":"CVE-2017-9285","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-9285","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:46:55.121Z","title":"NetIQ eDirectory before 9.0 SP4 did not enforce login restrictions when \"ebaclient\" was used, allowing unpermitted access to eDirectory services.","description":"NetIQ eDirectory before 9.0 SP4 did not enforce login restrictions when \"ebaclient\" was used, allowing unpermitted access to eDirectory services.","published":"2018-03-02T20:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:27:49.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@opentext.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-284","CWE-287"],"affected":["microfocus/edirectory","netiq/edirectory"],"epss":{"score":0.01189,"percentile":0.67755,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.19%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029077","source":"security@opentext.com"},{"url":"https://www.netiq.com/documentation/edirectory-9/edirectory904_releasenotes/data/edirectory904_releasenotes.html","source":"security@opentext.com"},{"url":"https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7016794","source":"security@opentext.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029077","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.netiq.com/documentation/edirectory-9/edirectory904_releasenotes/data/edirectory904_releasenotes.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7016794","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9285","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."}