CVE-2015-0283: Red Hat Slapi-Nis

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The slapi-nis plug-in before 0.54.2 does not properly reallocate memory when processing user accounts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a request for a (1) group with a large number of members or (2) user that belongs to a large number of groups.

Affected products

• Red Hat Slapi-Nis: up to and including 0.54.1

Published 2015-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.