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CVE-2015-6908

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-6908 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the ber_get_next function of OpenLDAP versions 2.4.42 and earlier, affecting products like Apple Mac OS X and OpenLDAP itself. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 5.0, can be triggered remotely with low attack complexity and no authentication, leading to an application crash. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking significant community discussion or media coverage, a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.4.42CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 10.11.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
19.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-38145 · Sep 11, 2015
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1998 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: openldap-0:2.3.43-29.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: openldap-0:2.4.40-6.el6_7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: openldap-0:2.4.39-7.el7_1
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: openldap

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-6908Important

openldap: ber_get_next denial of service vulnerability

Sep 9, 2015

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00005.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00031.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00032.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00037.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00039.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00040.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1840.html
support.apple.com / HT205637
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3356
openldap.org / devel/gitweb.cgi
openldap.org / its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs
ExploitVendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
security-assessment.com / files/documents/advisory/OpenLDAP-ber_get_next-Denial-of-Service.pdf
securityfocus.com / bid/76714
securitytracker.com / id/1033534
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2742-1