Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-11789
A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The SMD5 password storage plugin performs unsigned integer underflow when computing salt length from a crafted password hash shorter than 16 bytes, causing a buffer over-read that crashes the LDAP server during authentication.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 18.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 4.9
References
Products affected by CVE-2026-11789
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cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:11.0
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cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:12.0
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cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:13.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:389_directory_server:-
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0
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cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0