CVE-2012-4450

medium
Published 2012-10-01 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

389 Directory Server 1.2.10 does not properly update the ACL when a DN entry is moved by a modrdn operation, which allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to bypass ACL restrictions and access the DN 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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.2.11.15-1
sid Fixed 1.2.11.15-1
bullseye Fixed 1.2.11.15-1
bookworm Fixed 1.2.11.15-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
fedora fedoraproject389_directory_server1.2.10

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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