CVE-2016-8750: Apache Karaf

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache Karaf prior to 4.0.8 used the LDAPLoginModule to authenticate users to a directory via LDAP. However, it did not encoding usernames properly and hence was vulnerable to LDAP injection attacks leading to a denial of service.

Affected products

• Apache Karaf: before 4.0.8 (fixed in 4.0.8)

Published 2018-02-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.