CVE Catalog

CVE-2020-36224

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
4.30%

91th percentile - higher than 91% of all known CVEs

Summary

A flaw was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading to an invalid pointer free and slapd crash in the saslAuthzTo processing, resulting in denial of service.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to crash the LDAP server, leading to disruption of directory services and potential authentication issues.

Recommendation

Upgrade OpenLDAP to version 2.4.57 or later to eliminate the risk of crashes.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading to an invalid pointer free and slapd crash in the saslAuthzTo processing, resulting in denial of service.

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