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CVE-2006-5779
OpenLDAP before 2.3.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via LDAP BIND requests with long authcid names,…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 76.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
OpenLDAP before 2.3.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via LDAP BIND requests with long authcid names, which triggers an assertion failure.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 76.9% · top 0.4% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
23
- 23133 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2006:072 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://gleg.net/vulndisco_meta.shtml (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-820 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 23170 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1017166 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 2006-0066 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred
- MDKSA-2006:208 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4379 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20939 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-384-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openldap-bind-dos(30076) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=4740 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 23152 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://gleg.net/downloads/VULNDISCO_META_FREE.tar.gz (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 22996 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- OpenPKG-SA-2006.033 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENPKGx_transferred
- 22953 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23125 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20061106 VulnDisco Pack for Metasploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1831 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- GLSA-200611-25 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 22750 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-5763 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-5779)Record last updated .