VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-3480

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.70%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-05-20
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A flaw was found in slapi-nis in versions before 0.56.7. A NULL pointer dereference during the parsing of the Binding DN could allow an unauthenticated attacker to crash the 389-ds-base directory server. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-476

Primary references