Security advisory

{
  "id": "12e4afb300848e2ce3355ce9ee95a8d799b0785611193f51ef06b9dbab0abb7f",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8750",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-8750",
    "summary": "Apache Karaf prior to 4.0.8 used the LDAPLoginModule to authenticate users to a directory via LDAP. However, it did not encoding usernames properly and hence was vulnerable to LDAP injection attacks leading to a denial of service.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-8750",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-8750",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-8750",
        "GHSA-chj8-5xgw-wcvj"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/apache/karaf",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "2e73d43b80ae69e748b106fdb4cc301a9856f306"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:karaf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "4.0.8"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "karaf-4.0.7",
            "karaf-4.0.6",
            "karaf-4.0.5",
            "karaf-4.0.4",
            "karaf-4.0.3",
            "karaf-4.0.2",
            "karaf-4.0.1",
            "karaf-4.0.0.M2",
            "karaf-4.0.0.M1",
            "karaf-3.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8750.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:57.464611831Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1322",
        "https://karaf.apache.org/security/cve-2016-8750.txt"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-8750",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438870,
  "published_at": "2018-02-19T15:29:00.207+00:00"
}