CVE-2006-0452

high

Description

dn2ancestor in the LDAP component in Fedora Directory Server 1.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a ModDN operation with a DN that contains a large number of "," (comma) characters, which results in a large amount of recursion, as demonstrated using the ProtoVer LDAP test suite.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24796

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16677

http://secunia.com/advisories/18960

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179137

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-02-14

Updated: 2026-04-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00763