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CVE-2007-6698

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-6698 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting OpenLDAP versions prior to 2.3.36, specifically within the BDB backend for slapd. An authenticated attacker can trigger a crash, potentially due to a double-free, by performing a modify operation with the NOOP control set to critical. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a low severity, as it requires authentication and only results in a denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.3.35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.04%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0204 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 21,958 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 0.1 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: openldap-0:2.2.13-8.el4_6.4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: openldap-0:2.3.27-8.el5_1.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-6698Moderate

openldap: slapd crash on NOOP control operation on entry in bdb storage

Apr 11, 2007

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00011.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/28817
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28953
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29068
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29225
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29256
secunia.com / advisories/29682
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29957
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10748
support.apple.com / kb/HT3937
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00105.html
wiki.rpath.com / Advisories:rPSA-2008-0059
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0059
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1541
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openldap.org / lists/openldap-bugs/200704/msg00067.html
openldap.org / lists/openldap-bugs/200704/msg00068.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0110.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/488242/100/200/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/26245
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-584-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/3184
Vendor Advisory