CVE-2026-14969

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 4.4 Medium

Status

Analyzed - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2026-07-07

Last modified

2026-07-07

Weaknesses

CWE-329

Affected products

• 389 Directory Server (Redhat)
• Directory Server (Redhat)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)

References

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