CVE-2011-0022

medium

Published 2011-02-23 · 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

4.7

Description

The setup scripts in 389 Directory Server 1.2.x (aka Red Hat Directory Server 8.2.x), when multiple unprivileged instances are configured, use 0777 permissions for the /var/run/dirsrv directory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon outage or arbitrary process termination) by replacing PID files contained in this directory.

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.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
fedoraproject	389_directory_server	`1.2.1`
fedoraproject	389_directory_server	`1.2.2`
fedoraproject	389_directory_server	`1.2.3`
fedoraproject	389_directory_server	`1.2.5`
fedoraproject	389_directory_server	`1.2.6`
fedoraproject	389_directory_server	`1.2.6.1`
fedoraproject	389_directory_server	`1.2.7`
fedoraproject	389_directory_server	`1.2.7.5`
fedoraproject	389_directory_server	`1.2.8`
redhat	directory_server	`8.2`
redhat	directory_server	`8.2.3`

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.