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CVE-2021-3480

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2021-05-20 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Slapi-Nis Project Slapi-NisFedoraproject Fedora

Weakness Type

CWE-476

References