CVE-2026-11788

Summary

A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The dereference control plugin does not check for allocation failure before using a BER structure, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the LDAP server when the system is under memory pressure.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Workarounds

Disable the deref plugin (most effective): dsconf <instance> plugin deref disable; systemctl restart dirsrv@<instance>. Disable anonymous access (nsslapd-allow-anonymous-access=off) to raise the bar from pre-auth to authenticated exploitation. Configure memory limits as defense-in-depth: set nsslapd-maxbersize and nsslapd-conntablesize, and deploy in a cgroup with memory limits.

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-11788
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2485423

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