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CVE-2021-4091

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-4091 describes a double-free vulnerability in 389-ds-base, affecting products like port389 and Red Hat. An unauthenticated attacker can trigger a server crash by sending specific search requests, leading to a denial-of-service condition. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.3.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:port389:389-ds-base:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_big_endian:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0201 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Directory Server 11.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: redhat-ds:11-8040020220114174559.d9abee45
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: 389-ds-base-0:1.3.10.2-15.el7_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: 389-ds:1.4-8050020220302180105.4051e825
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: 389-ds:1.4-8040020220323173247.96015a92
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2021-4091Low

389-ds-base: double free of the virtual attribute context in persistent search

Jan 27, 2022

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00015.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00026.html