CVE-2009-3862: Novell Edirectory

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The NDSD process in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 before 8.7.3.10 ftf2 and eDirectory 8.8 before 8.8.5 ftf1 does not properly handle certain LDAP search requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via a search request with a NULL BaseDN value.

Affected products

• Novell Edirectory: version 8.7.3 only; version 8.7.3.8 only; version 8.7.3.9 only; version 8.8 only; version 8.8.1 only; version 8.8.2 only

Published 2009-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.