CVE-2005-2551: Novell Edirectory

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 55.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in dhost.exe in iMonitor for Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 on Windows allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and obtain access to files via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Novell Edirectory: version 8.7.3 only

Published 2005-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.