CVE-2026-11789

medium

Description

A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The SMD5 password storage plugin performs unsigned integer underflow when computing salt length from a crafted password hash shorter than 16 bytes, causing a buffer over-read that crashes the LDAP server during authentication.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2485422

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-11789

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-06-09

Updated: 2026-06-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00057