CVE-2024-6237

389-ds-base: unauthenticated user can trigger a dos by sending a specific extended search request

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Jul 9, 2024
Updated: Nov 20, 2025
Reserved: Jun 21, 2024

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-230 Improper Handling of Missing Values

Affected Products

Product	Versions
389-ds-base	before 2.4.5Affected
Red Hat Directory Server 12.4 for RHEL 9Red Hat	9040020240723122852.1674d574 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat	0:2.4.5-9.el9_4 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Directory Server 11Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat

References

RHSA-2024:4997vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:5192vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6237vdb-entry
RHBZ#2293579issue-tracking
https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/issues/5989

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