CVE-2016-4992

389-ds-base: Information disclosure via repeated use of LDAP ADD operation

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · June 17, 2016

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

An information disclosure flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. A user with no access to objects in certain LDAP sub-tree could send LDAP ADD operations with a specific object name. The error message returned to the user was different based on whether the target object existed or not.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS 2.0 · 3.5
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWE-209 · Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information