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FKIE_CVE-2021-22532

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-09-12 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:37

Severity

7.6 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

Possible NLDAP Denial of Service attack Vulnerability in eDirectory has been discovered in OpenText™ eDirectory before 9.2.4.0000.

References

	URL	Tags
	security@opentext.com	https://www.netiq.com/documentation/edirectory-92/edirectory925_releasenotes/data/edirectory925_releasenotes.html	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	microfocus	edirectory	*

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CVE-2021-22532 (GCVE-0-2021-22532)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-12 12:44 – Updated: 2024-09-12 12:57

Title

Possible NLDAP Denial of Service attack Vulnerability

Summary

Possible NLDAP Denial of Service attack Vulnerability in eDirectory has been discovered in OpenText™ eDirectory before 9.2.4.0000.

Severity

7.6 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-12 12:56 UTC

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

OpenText mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.netiq.com/documentation/edirectory-92…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
OpenText	eDirectory	Affected: 9.2.4.0000 , < < (rpm, exe)

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

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