GHSA-6w5v-vmwv-xcwj

GHSA-6w5v-vmwv-xcwj PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 24, 2022

A flaw was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading to an infinite loop in slapd with the cancel_extop Cancel operation, resulting in denial of service.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

7.5

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

Timeline

May 24, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory

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vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-6w5v-vmwv-xcwj
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-6w5v-vmwv-xcwj

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curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-6w5v-vmwv-xcwj/fixes/registry"

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References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00005.html url
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212530 url
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/64 url
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/65 url
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/70 url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36227 advisory
https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9428 url
https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/tags/OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_4_57 url
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E url
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E url
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212529 url
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4845 url
https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/9d0e8485f3113505743baabf1167e01e4558ccf5 url
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210226-0002 url
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212531 url

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