CVE-2026-14969

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Summary

A flaw was found in 389-ds-base where the LDBM backend attribute encryption uses a hardcoded static initialization vector for AES-CBC and 3DES-CBC operations, allowing an attacker with privileged filesystem access to detect plaintext equality across encrypted entries by comparing ciphertext blocks.

CVSS Score

4.4

Medium

EPSS Score

0.1

Exploit Probability

Published Date

2026-07-07

First Seen: 2026-07-08

📊 Relative Risk Intelligence

This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 11.5% of all 335,187 vulnerabilities in our database.

#296,589

Below average severity

Severity Percentile

🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: Jul 7, 2026

🔍 Exploitation Status

None

No known exploits

⚙️ Automatable

Requires human interaction

💥 Technical Impact

Partial

Limited system impact

🏆 Discovered By

Red Hat would like to thank Andrew Rukin (Arenadata) for reporting this issue.

SSVC data provided by CISA

Last Modified 2026-07-09

Source NVD 🔗

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

CWE IDs (Weakness Types)

CWE-329

📦 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 2

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-14969

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2497735

Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory

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