CVE-2018-14648
An unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to provoke a denial of service.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (7.17%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. A specially crafted search query could lead to excessive CPU consumption in the do_search() function. An unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to provoke a denial of service.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 7.17% probability · 94th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- fedoraproject/389 directory server · debian/debian linux · redhat/enterprise linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 7.2% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3127Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3507Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14648Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00015.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3127Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3507Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14648Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00015.htmlThird Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.