Is CVE-2010-0211 being actively exploited?

CVE-2010-0211 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2010-0211?

CVE-2010-0211 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

CVE-2010-0211

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8EPSS 28.5%EU EUVD

The slap_modrdn2mods function in modrdn.c in OpenLDAP 2.4.22 does not check the return value of a call to the smr_normalize function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a modrdn call with an RDN string containing invalid UTF-8 sequences, which triggers a free of an invalid, uninitialized pointer in the slap_mods_free function, as demonstrated using the Codenomicon LDAPv3 test suite.

Key facts

CVSS score: 9.8 (v3.1)
Severity: CRITICAL
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-252
EPSS score: 28.5% (98th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2010-0242)
Published: July 28, 2010
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0242 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

apple / mac os x
apple / mac os x server
openldap / openldap
opensuse / opensuse
vmware / esxi
vmware / esxi

Certified products that may be affected

1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.

Apple Mac OS X 10.6 - Apple Inc. - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0536-2010 - archived

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705(Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html(Mailing List)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html(Mailing List)
http://secunia.com/advisories/40639(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/40677(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/40687(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/42787(Broken Link)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201406-36.xml(Third Party Advisory)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435(Issue Tracking)
http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=6570(Exploit)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0542.html(Broken Link)
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0543.html(Broken Link)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515545/100/0/threaded(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41770(Broken Link, Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024221(Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0001.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1849(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1858(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0025(Broken Link)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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