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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-10171

An attacker would still be able to provoke excessive CPU consumption leading to a denial of service.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.37%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.37%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

It was found that the fix for CVE-2018-14648 in 389-ds-base, versions 1.4.0.x before 1.4.0.17, was incorrectly applied in RHEL 7.5. An attacker would still be able to provoke excessive CPU consumption leading to a denial of service.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.37% probability · 70th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-770
Affected
fedoraproject/389 directory server · redhat/enterprise linux server eus
Source
secalert@redhat.com

References

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