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CVE-2010-0212

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0212 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenLDAP 2.4.22. A remote attacker can crash the server by sending a malformed modrdn call with a zero-length RDN destination string, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited with low attack complexity and no authentication. Despite a high FAUCET Risk Score of 97/100 and an elevated EPSS score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.4.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openldap:openldap:2.4.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
6.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0622 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: openldap-0:2.3.43-12.el5_5.1
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: openldap

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0212Important

openldap: modrdn processing IA5StringNormalize NULL pointer dereference

Jul 19, 2010

References

kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
secunia.com / advisories/40639
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/40687
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42787
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201406-36.xml
support.apple.com / kb/HT4435
openldap.org / its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs
Exploit
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0542.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/515545/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/41770
ExploitPatch
securitytracker.com / id
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0001.html
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1849
PatchVendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1858
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0025