Home/CVE/A flaw was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading to an assertion failure in slapd in the saslAuthzTo validation,
CVE

CVE-2020-36222

A flaw was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading to an assertion failure in slapd in the saslAuthzTo validation,

A flaw was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading to an assertion failure in slapd in the saslAuthzTo validation, resulting in denial of service.

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.46067
Schedule remediation
  • EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
  • EPSS percentile: top 2% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules8 YARA rules0
⬡

Weakness Classification

CWE-617Reachable Assertion
▤

Affected Products & Versions

5
openldap< 2.4.57
debian linuxall versions
apple mac os x>= 10.14.0 and < 10.14.6
apple mac os xall versions
apple macos>= 11.1 and < 11.4
◈

Sigma Hunt Rules

8
Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.
producthighSuspicious Microsoft Office Child Process - MacOS
producthighRemote Access Tool - Renamed MeshAgent Execution - MacOS
producthighBinary Padding - MacOS
productmediumSuspicious Execution via macOS Script Editor
productmediumSystem Information Discovery Via Sysctl - MacOS
productmediumNew File Exclusion Added To Time Machine Via Tmutil - MacOS
▣

Scoring & Timeline

7.5
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · cve@mitre.org
View on NVD
Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD26 Jan 2021 · 06:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
⚑

Vendor Advisories

10
usnUSN-7698-1
siemens-csafSSA-398330
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2021:14700-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2021:0408-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2021:0723-1
🔗

References & Sources

17
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/64Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/65Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/May/70Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9406Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9407Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/02dfc32d658fadc25e4040f78e36592f6e1e1ca0PatchVendor Advisory
Intelligence Graph · click any node to traverse
CVETechnique ActorTool Family
drag to reposition · click any node to traverse · button top-right enlarges
External lookups - second-class, for what we don’t hold ourselves
NVDCVE.orgCISAVulnersExploit-DBGitHub PoCVulnCheck KEVGreyNoise
Vulnerabilities
CISA KEV catalog
CWE weaknesses
CAPEC attack patterns
Package vulnerabilities
Threat intelligence
Threat actors
Tools & malware
ATT&CK techniques
IOCs
Detection & defense
Sigma rules
YARA rules
Atomic Red Team tests
D3FEND countermeasures
Compliance
NIST 800-53
ISO 27001:2022
SOC 2 TSC
PCI-DSS v4.0
CIS Controls v8.1
About
All capabilities
Live statistics
Data sources
Privacy policy
Terms of service
threatengine.sh  ·  Open-source threat intelligence platform  ·  100+ authoritative sources  ·  Every fact traces to its origin