CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-6237

Improper Handling of Missing Values

Published: Jul 09, 2024 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A flaw was found in the 389 Directory Server. This flaw allows an unauthenticated user to cause a systematic server crash while sending a specific extended search request, leading to a denial of service.

Weakness

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles when a parameter, field, or argument name is specified, but the associated value is missing, i.e. it is empty, blank, or null.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Directory_server Redhat 12.0 (including) 12.0 (including)
389_directory_server Redhat - (including) - (including)
Enterprise_linux Redhat 9.0 (including) 9.0 (including)
Red Hat Directory Server 12.4 for RHEL 9 RedHat redhat-ds:12-9040020240723122852.1674d574 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat 389-ds-base-0:2.4.5-9.el9_4 *
389-ds-base Ubuntu mantic *
389-ds-base Ubuntu upstream *

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