CVE-2024-2199: Improper Input Validation
Source CVE Database V5
Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.7 Medium.
Data as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:02 UTC
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 46% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 28 May 2024
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-25.
What to do
AI-suggested
Red Hat has released official security updates for affected versions of 389-ds-base on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 9. Applying these updates will remediate the vulnerability and automatically restart the 389 server service. Users should follow Red Hat's guidance at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 to apply the patches promptly. No additional mitigation is required beyond installing the official fixes.
Description
A denial of service vulnerability was found in 389-ds-base ldap server. This issue may allow an authenticated user to cause a server crash while modifying `userPassword` using malformed input.
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3591 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3837 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4092 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4209 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4210 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4235 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4633 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5690 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1632 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2199 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267976 (opens in a new tab)
- port389.org/docs/389ds/releases/release-3-1-1.html (opens in a new tab)
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00015.html (opens in a new tab)