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Red HatCVE-2026-14969

Red Hat 389-ds-base: attacker could detect plaintext equality across encrypted

Medium4.4CVE-2026-14969 · Published Jul 7, 2026 · updated Jul 9, 2026

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.

Red Hat advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Directory Server 11
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Directory Server 12
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Directory Server 13
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-329

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