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CVE-2020-12243

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-12243 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenLDAP versions prior to 2.4.50, affecting products from vendors like Apple, Debian, and Oracle. An unauthenticated attacker can crash the slapd daemon by sending specially crafted LDAP search filters with nested boolean expressions. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.4.50CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0442 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

mediatekpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: 9.3.1, 9.2.3, 9.1.6
oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: openldap-0:2.4.44-22.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift DoFixed in: openshiftdo/odo-init-image-rhel7:1.1.3-2
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: compat-openldap

Vendor Advisories (2)

mediatekllm-mediatek-5bd731d14163992dHIGH

Third-Party Package Updates in Splunk Enterprise - October 2024

Oct 14, 2024
redhatCVE-2020-12243Moderate

openldap: denial of service via nested boolean expressions in LDAP search filters

Apr 28, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00016.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugs.openldap.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
git.openldap.org / openldap/openldap/-/blob/OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4/CHANGES
Release NotesVendor Advisory
git.openldap.org / openldap/openldap/-/commit/98464c11df8247d6a11b52e294ba5dd4f0380440
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00001.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20200511-0003
Third Party Advisory
support.apple.com / kb/HT211289
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4352-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4352-2
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2020/dsa-4666
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
PatchThird Party Advisory