CVE-2012-0429 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-0429?

CVE-2012-0429 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 25 Dec 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

dhost in NetIQ eDirectory 8.8.6.x before 8.8.6.7 and 8.8.7.x before 8.8.7.2 on Windows allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via crafted characters in an HTTP request.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-0429?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microfocus Edirectory.

How do I fix CVE-2012-0429?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-0429 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2012-0429 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-0429 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2012-0432 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-7429 Fix for NetIQ shell code upload High 8.8
• CVE-2021-22532 Possible NLDAP Denial of Service attack Vulnerability High 7.6
• CVE-2018-17950 Missing authorization in NetIQ eDirectory 9.1 SP2 High 7.5
• CVE-2018-7686 Information disclosure in eDirectory (ZDI) High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-c8vc-x3mc-c2g6.