CVE-2020-36229: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was discovered in ldap_X509dn2bv in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading to a slapd crash in the X.509 DN parsing in ad_keystring, resulting in denial of service.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: from 10.14.0, before 10.14.6 (fixed in 10.14.6); version 10.14.6 only
• Apple macOS: from 11.1, before 11.4 (fixed in 11.4)
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Openldap Openldap: before 2.4.57 (fixed in 2.4.57)

Published 2021-01-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.