CVE-2020-36222 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2020-36222?

CVE-2020-36222 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 25 Jan 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was discovered in OpenLDAP before 2.4.57 leading to an assertion failure in slapd in the saslAuthzTo validation, resulting in denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-617

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-36222?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including openldap. It affects 4 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Macos, Debian Debian Linux, Openldap Openldap.

How do I fix CVE-2020-36222?

Upgrade openldap to 2.4.57 or later.

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-2020-36222 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-36222 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2020-36222, BIT-openldap-2020-36222, CLEANSTART-2026-SZ70043, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-36222, GHSA-wg72-v28c-7j5h, JLSEC-2026-164 and 1 more.