VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2009-5073

medium
Published 2011-04-21 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.0

Description

IBM Tivoli Directory Server (TDS) 6.0 before 6.0.0.59 (aka 6.0.0.8-TIV-ITDS-IF0001) allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and daemon hang) by adding a nested group that contains the Distinguished Name (DN) of its parent entry.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.0
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.1
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.7
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.8
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.14
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.19
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.33
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.41
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.45
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.52
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.53
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.54
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.55
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.56
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.57
ibm ibmtivoli_directory_server6.0.0.58

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.