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CVE-2020-25710 (GCVE-0-2020-25710)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-28 10:20 – Updated: 2024-08-04 15:40
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Summary
A flaw was found in OpenLDAP in versions before 2.4.56. This flaw allows an attacker who sends a malicious packet processed by OpenLDAP to force a failed assertion in csnNormalize23(). The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a openldap Affected: openldap 2.4.56
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