CVE-2026-12528
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CVE-2026-12528 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 5.4/10 on the CVSS scale. A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server in the __aclp__normalize_acltxt() function of aclparse.c. A malformed ACI (Access Control Instruction) string can trigger heap-buffer-overflow writes and reads during ACI parsing. EPSS estimates a 0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server in the __aclp__normalize_acltxt() function of aclparse.c. A malformed ACI (Access Control Instruction) string can trigger heap-buffer-overflow writes and reads during ACI parsing. The function fails to validate that the ACI keyword has sufficient length after whitespace stripping, leading to a 1-byte out-of-bounds write and subsequent out-of-bounds reads. An authenticated user with write access to the aci attribute could send a crafted ACI value to silently corrupt heap memory in the directory server process.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Redhat | Directory Server | 11.0 |
| Redhat | Directory Server | 12.0 |
| Redhat | Directory Server | 13.0 |
| Redhat | 389 Directory Server | All versions |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 7.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 8.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 9.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 10.0 |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-12528Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489835Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Timeline
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- Last Modified
- Status
- Analyzed
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