CVE-2011-0022

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-02-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The setup scripts in 389 Directory Server 1.2.x (aka Red Hat Directory Server 8.2.x), when multiple unprivileged instances are configured, use 0777 permissions for the /var/run/dirsrv directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon outage or arbitrary process termination) by replacing PID files contained in this directory.

Affected products

Red Hat, Inc. 389-ds-base: 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.5, 1.2.5-rc1, 1.2.5-rc2 (+16)
RedHat Directory Server: 8.2, 8.2.3

References

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0293.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46489
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025102
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671199
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0293.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46489
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025102
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=671199

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