A flaw was found in 389-ds-base.
CVE-2026-9064
A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. The getldapmessagecontrolsext() function in the LDAP server does not enforce an upper bound on the number of controls per LDAP message. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted LDAP request containing hundreds of thousands of minimal controls within the default maximum BER message size (2 MB), causing excessive CPU consumption and heap allocation on the server. Under concurrent exploitation, this leads to significant latency degradation, worker thread starvation, or out-of-memory termination, resulting in a denial of service.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 7.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- High
- EPSS
- 0.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 20 May 2026
- Last updated
- 5 November 2026
- Affected
- Red Hat · Red Hat Directory Server 11.5 E4S for RHEL 8 · Red Hat Directory Server 11.7 E4S for RHEL 8 · Red Hat Directory Server 11.9 for RHEL 8 · Red Hat Directory Server 12.2 E4S for RHEL 9
- Assigner
- redhat
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
At the source
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26452
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26453
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26454
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26455
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26456
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26457
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26458
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26459
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26460
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26461
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26463
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26464
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