High

389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: unauthenticated worker-thread-pool exhaustion via completed-operation-then-incomplete-pdu connection requeue

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a complete LDAP operation followed by the first bytes of an incomplete LDAPMessage on the same connection, causing the server to hand that connection to a second worker thread before the first worker's result is flushed. The second worker blocks until nsslapd-ioblocktimeout while holding the connection mutex, preventing delivery of the completed operation's result. Repeating this across a small number of connections proportional to the configured worker-thread pool size exhausts the entire pool under default configuration, denying service to all clients (anonymous and authenticated, plaintext and TLS) for as long as the attacker maintains the connections.

Announced 1 Oct 2026Source revision 1

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CVE-2026-86344

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-86344

Red Hat Directory Server 11

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Red Hat Directory Server 11

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Red Hat Directory Server 12

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Red Hat Directory Server 12

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Red Hat Directory Server 13

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

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Related CVEs: CVE-2026-86344
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Publisher severity

high

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Event: #8133 · Revision 1
Added to Heist Feed: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:55:41 GMT
Publisher date: Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:29:55 GMT

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