THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-36230
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2020-36230

Openldap vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
12.3%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
A flaw was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading in an assertion failure in slapd in the X.509 DN parsing in decode.c ber_next_element, resulting in denial of service.
Affected vendor
Openldap
Affected product
Openldap
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2021-01-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 12.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-36230

  • Confirm whether Openldap Openldap is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-36230.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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