CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
92.4%
OpenLDAP is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
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CPE = "cpe:/a:openldap:openldap";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.147069");
script_version("2021-11-02T05:28:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2021-11-02 05:28:10 +0000 (Tue, 02 Nov 2021)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-11-02 05:26:01 +0000 (Tue, 02 Nov 2021)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-4079");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("OpenLDAP < 2.4.27 DoS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_openldap_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("openldap/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"OpenLDAP is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Off-by-one error in the UTF8StringNormalize function allows
remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slapd crash) via a zero-length string that
triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, as demonstrated using an empty postalAddressAttribute
value in an LDIF entry.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"OpenLDAP prior to version 2.4.27.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2.4.27 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7059;selectid=7059");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "2.4.27")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "2.4.27", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);