CVE-2026-14969

4.4 mediumEPSS 0.1%

Medium (4.4) in redhat. 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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.4 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 1% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-329
Published: 2026-07-07
Modified: 2026-07-09
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

redhat:389_directory_server
redhat:directory_server
redhat:enterprise_linux

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-14969
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2497735

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