7.5

CVE-2018-14638: fedora project 389-ds-base Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.5v3.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2018-14638DEBIAN-CVE-2018-14638
Published 14-09-2018Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-14638 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in fedora project 389-ds-base. EPSS estimates a 2.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
2.65%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10593-1RHSA-2018:2757SUSE-SU-2019:2155-1

Timeline

  1. 14-09-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A flaw was found in 389-ds-base before version 1.3.8.4-13. The process ns-slapd crashes in delete_passwdPolicy function when persistent search connections are terminated unexpectedly leading to remote denial of service.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.65%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

85%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 2.65% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
2.65%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Redhat6 products
Debian1 product
  • 389-ds-base< 1.4.0.18-1
Fedora project1 product
Fedoraproject1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • 389-ds-baseAll versions (No fix recorded)

5 vendors · 10 products

References

6 links