389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: pbkdf2 password storage plugin unbounded iteration count denial of service (Red Hat Red Hat Directory Server 11)

CVE-2026-11790
MEDIUM 4.9

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.29 % Β· percentile 22 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Modified

Description

A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The PBKDF2-SHA256 password storage plugin does not enforce an upper bound on the iteration count extracted from stored password hashes. A privileged attacker who can modify a user's password hash can cause excessive CPU consumption during authentication, resulting in denial of service.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-400 β€” Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hredhat
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD Β· secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Red Hat Β· Red Hat Directory Server 11
Red Hat Β· Red Hat Directory Server 12
Red Hat Β· Red Hat Directory Server 13
Red Hat Β· Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Β· Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Β· Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Β· Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Β· Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST β€” attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA β€” reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain β€” this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD