[Pkg-freeipa-devel] Bug#1139815: 389-ds-base: CVE-2026-11790

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: 389-ds-base
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for 389-ds-base.

CVE-2026-11790[0]:
| A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The PBKDF2-SHA256 password
| storage plugin does not enforce an upper bound on the iteration
| count extracted from stored password hashes. A privileged attacker
| who can modify a user's password hash can cause excessive CPU
| consumption during authentication, resulting in denial of service.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2485421


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-11790
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-11790

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.