CVE-2020-36227

Public on 2021-01-26

Modified on 2024-02-05

Description

A flaw was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading to an infinite loop in slapd with the cancel_extop Cancel operation, resulting in denial of service.

Severity

Important

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CVSS v3 Base Score

7.5

See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 1	openldap	2023-04-27 16:19	ALAS-2023-1741
Amazon Linux 2 - Core	openldap	2023-04-27 18:37	ALAS2-2023-2033

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	CVSSv2	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD	CVSSv3	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Red Hat: CVE-2020-36227 Mitre: CVE-2020-36227 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity