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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.2

CVE-2020-15719 json

libldap in certain third-party OpenLDAP packages has a certificate-validation flaw when the third-party package is asserting RFC6125 suppor…

published 2020-07-14 6 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-openldap-2020-15719 , EUVD-2020-7705

cvss
4.2
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

libldap in certain third-party OpenLDAP packages has a certificate-validation flaw when the third-party package is asserting RFC6125 support. It considers CN even when there is a non-matching subjectAltName (SAN). This is fixed in, for example, openldap-2.4.46-10.el8 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami openldap 2.4.46-10.el8
  • openldap openldap 2.4.46-10.el8
  • mcafee policy_auditor 6.5.1
  • oracle blockchain_platform 21.1.2
  • openldap RHEL 8 2.4.46-10.el8
  • openldap-clients RHEL 8 2.4.46-10.el8

red hat advisories RHBA-2019:3674

  • openldap2 SLE Module for Legacy 15 SP2, SLE Module for Legacy 15 SP1, SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP2 +3 more 2.4.46-9.34.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:2581-1

  • openldap2 openSUSE Leap 15.2 2.4.46-lp152.14.6.1
  • openldap2 openSUSE Leap 15.1 2.4.46-lp151.10.15.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2020:1459-1openSUSE-SU-2020:1416-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-15719 updated cvss 4.2

openldap: Certificate validation incorrectly matches name against CN-ID

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 openldap, openldap24-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 openldap, compat-openldap, openldap-clients, openldap-servers, openldap-servers-sql
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 openldap, compat-openldap, openldap-clients, openldap-servers, openldap-servers-sql
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) openldap 2.4.46-10.el8, openldap-clients 2.4.46-10.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2019:3674

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
OSV 3.1 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami openldap
<2.4.46-10.el8
2.4.46-10.el8

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

Sources

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