CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-11790
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-06-09
- Last modified
- 2026-07-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The PBKDF2-SHA256 password storage plugin does not enforce an upper bound on the iteration count extracted from stored password hashes. A privileged attacker who can modify a user's password hash can cause excessive CPU consumption during authentication, resulting in denial of service.
Affected configurations
• redhat directory server 11.0
• redhat directory server 12.0
• redhat directory server 13.0
• redhat 389 directory server 1.3.6.0
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
• redhat enterprise linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-11790 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2485421 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory