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CVE-2022-0996

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-0996 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the 389 Directory Server, affecting various Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux products. This flaw allows improper authentication where expired passwords can still access the database. With a CVSS score of 6.5, it requires low privileges and network access to achieve high confidentiality impact, but has no integrity or availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:389_directory_server:1.4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0153 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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 (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: 389-ds-base-0:1.3.10.2-16.el7_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: 389-ds:1.4-8060020220519123000.824efc52
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: 389-ds:1.4-8040020220615161601.96015a92
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: 389-ds-base-0:2.1.3-4.el9_1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update SupportFixed in: 389-ds-base-0:2.0.14-3.el9_0
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Directory Server 11Fixed in: redhat-ds:11/389-ds-base

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-0996Low

389-ds-base: expired password was still allowed to access the database

Mar 21, 2022

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00015.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / ByteHackr/389-ds-base
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00026.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4QFD7CBBX3IZOSHEWL2EYKRLOEQSXCZ6
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PYT2IQJFHQWZENJJRY6EJB3XIFZGNT7F