CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-36221

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
84.99%

100th percentile - higher than 100% of all known CVEs

Summary

An integer underflow was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading to slapd crashes in the Certificate Exact Assertion processing, resulting in denial of service (schema_init.c serialNumberAndIssuerCheck).

Risk Assessment

An attacker can crash the slapd directory service, causing unavailability of authentication and dependent services. This threatens organizational continuity.

Recommendation

Update OpenLDAP to version 2.4.57 or later. Also monitor for unusual requests to the directory service.

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Original NVD description (English source)

An integer underflow was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading to slapd crashes in the Certificate Exact Assertion processing, resulting in denial of service (schema_init.c serialNumberAndIssuerCheck).

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS