A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. The PBKDF2-SHA256 password storage plugin does not enforce an upper bound on the iteration count extracted from stored password hashes. A privileged attacker who can modify a user's password hash can cause excessive CPU consumption during authentication, resulting in denial of service.
CVE-2026-11790
Score 4.9 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-06-09. a secondary CVSS source baseline 4.9; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 4.9
- EG Score
- 4.9(medium)
- EG Risk
- 22(Track)EG Risk 22/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity49% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 21%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 9, 2026
Last Modified
July 23, 2026
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Jun 13, 20262485421 – (CVE-2026-11790) CVE-2026-11790 389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: PBKDF2 password storage plugin unbounded iteration count denial of service
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2485421Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-11790(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
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Data Freshness Timeline
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