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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-3883

Connections using SSL/TLS are not taking this timeout into account during reads, and may hang longer.An unauthenticated attacker could repeatedly create hanging LDAP requests to hang all the workers, resulting in a Denial of Service.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 8.43%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (8.43%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

In 389-ds-base up to version 1.4.1.2, requests are handled by workers threads. Each sockets will be waited by the worker for at most 'ioblocktimeout' seconds. However this timeout applies only for un-encrypted requests. Connections using SSL/TLS are not taking this timeout into account during reads, and may hang longer.An unauthenticated attacker could repeatedly create hanging LDAP requests to hang all the workers, resulting in 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
8.43% probability · 95th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-772
Affected
fedoraproject/389 directory server · debian/debian linux · redhat/enterprise linux
Source
secalert@redhat.com

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