CVE-2026-14969: Red Hat 389 Directory Server

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in 389-ds-base where the LDBM backend attribute encryption uses a hardcoded static initialization vector for AES-CBC and 3DES-CBC operations, allowing an attacker with privileged filesystem access to detect plaintext equality across encrypted entries by comparing ciphertext blocks.

Affected products

• Red Hat 389 Directory Server: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Directory Server: version 11.0 only; version 12.0 only; version 13.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only

Published 2026-07-07. Last modified 2026-07-09.