RHSA-2021:3906 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: 389-ds:1.4 security and bug fix update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · October 19, 2021

Updated · November 22, 2025

Topic

An update for the 389-ds:1.4 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

389 Directory Server is an LDAP version 3 (LDAPv3) compliant server. The base packages include the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server and command-line utilities for server administration.

Security Fix(es):

389-ds-base: CRYPT password hash with asterisk allows any bind attempt to succeed (CVE-2021-3652)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

A replication connection can be erroneously flagged as a non-replication connection causing the evaluation of the access control rules (BZ#1993267).
If a persistent search encounters an error entries were previously still being returned. This has been fixed (BZ#1993266).
Indexes added by plugins are not enabled, and cause some plugins to perform unexpected internal unindexed searches. Now indexes added by plugins are enabled immediately (BZ#1993263).

Related CVEs

CVE-2021-3652 ↗