CVE-2017-15135

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-01-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

It was found that 389-ds-base since 1.3.6.1 up to and including 1.4.0.3 did not always handle internal hash comparison operations correctly during the authentication process. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to bypass the authentication process under very rare and specific circumstances.

Affected products

Red Hat, Inc. 389-ds-base: from 1.3.6.1 through 1.4.0.3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00033.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102811
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0414
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0515
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525628
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00033.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102811
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0414
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0515
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525628

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