VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2009-2456

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.55%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-07-14
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The DS\NDSD component in Novell eDirectory 8.8 before SP5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ndsd core dump) via an LDAP request containing multiple . (dot) wildcard characters in the Relative Distinguished Name (RDN).

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