CVE-2026-11789

🔶 medium

Summary

A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The SMD5 password storage plugin performs unsigned integer underflow when computing salt length from a crafted password hash shorter than 16 bytes, causing a buffer over-read that crashes the LDAP server during authentication.

CVSS Score

4.9

Medium

EPSS Score

0.3

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-06-09

First Seen: 2026-06-10

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 14.8% of all 328,009 vulnerabilities in our database.

#279,467

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Jun 9, 2026

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-06-12

Source NVD 🔗

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

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-191

📦 Affected Products 8

Vendor	Product	Status	Affected Versions
redhat	directory_server	Affected	v11.0
redhat	directory_server	Affected	v12.0
redhat	directory_server	Affected	v13.0
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v10.0
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v7.0
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v8.0
redhat	enterprise_linux	Affected	v9.0
redhat	389_directory_server	Affected	v-

🔗 References 3

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-11789

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2485422

Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory

https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/PSIRTSUPT-7600

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