CVE-2026-18453

HIGHPre-NVD 7.57.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-07. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source

Also known asEUVD-2026-72456 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.8%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. A missing NULL pointer check in the paged results handling of op_shared_search allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the LDAP server by sending a crafted sequence of search requests using the USE_ONE_BACKEND control, resulting in denial of service.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
49
EG Risk 49/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity75% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.9% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.8%
EPSS %ILE
58th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.8% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-10). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 7, 2026

Last Modified

November 4, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Sep 7, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red Hat

2509696 – (CVE-2026-18453) CVE-2026-18453 389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: pre-authentication NULL pointer dereference via paged results and USE_ONE_BACKEND control in op_shared_search

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2509696
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-18453 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18453

Patch Availability(17)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatredhat-ds:11-8060020260908152739.0ca98e7e2026-10-08redhat
redhatredhat-ds:12-9020020260903155914.1674d5742026-09-08redhat
redhat389-ds-base-0:3.0.6-21.el10_02026-09-08redhat
redhat389-ds-base-0:1.3.11.1-15.el7_92026-09-08redhat
redhat389-ds:1.4-8040020260901171549.96015a922026-09-08redhat
redhat389-ds-base-0:2.2.4-22.el9_22026-09-08redhat
redhatredhat-ds:12-9040020260903102623.1674d5742026-09-08redhat
redhat389-ds-base-0:3.2.0-10.el10_22026-09-08redhat
redhat389-ds-base-0:2.6.1-24.el9_62026-09-08redhat
redhat389-ds-base-0:2.4.5-29.el9_42026-09-08redhat
redhatredhat-ds:11-8100020260904171440.37ed7c032026-09-08redhat
redhat389-ds:1.4-8100020260904155442.25e700aa2026-09-08redhat
redhatredhat-ds:11-8080020260903102346.f969626e2026-09-08redhat
redhat389-ds:1.4-8080020260831180218.6dbb38032026-09-08redhat
redhatdirsrv/dirsrv-container-rhel10:17888517652026-09-08redhat
redhat389-ds:1.4-8060020260901145727.824efc522026-09-08redhat
redhat389-ds-base-0:2.8.0-10.el9_82026-09-08redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(2 across 2 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
389-ds-base2.3.1+dfsg1-1 ... 3.3.1-3 (18 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
389-ds-base3.1.2+dfsg1-1 ... 3.3.1-3 (8 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 42× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

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  1. 2026-11-13 16:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 58th percentile
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  5. 2026-11-11 07:57 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-11-11 07:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  7. 2026-11-10 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 58th percentile
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  14. 2026-11-04 22:27 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-11-04 22:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  16. 2026-11-04 22:17 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  17. 2026-11-04 22:17 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-11-04 22:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  1. 2026-10-30 12:55 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-30 12:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
  3. 2026-10-29 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 57th percentile
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  11. 2026-10-24 03:18 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-24 03:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  21. 2026-10-17 17:50 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-17 17:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  36. 2026-10-10 11:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  39. 2026-10-09 22:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  50. 2026-10-08 14:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  53. 2026-10-08 01:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  58. 2026-10-06 23:45 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-10-06 23:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  62. 2026-10-06 11:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  64. 2026-10-05 22:54 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-10-05 22:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  69. 2026-10-05 08:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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  72. 2026-10-04 20:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-42wr-8m7m-5j62 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.5
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-18453?
CVE-2026-18453 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 7, 2026. A flaw was found in 389 Directory Server. A missing NULL pointer check in the paged results handling of op_shared_search allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the LDAP server by sending a crafted sequence of search requests using the USE_ONE_BACKEND control, resulting in denial of…
When was CVE-2026-18453 made public?
CVE-2026-18453 was made public on September 7, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on September 7, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 4, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-18453 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-18453 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (58th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-18453?
CVE-2026-18453 has a CVSS base score of 7.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-18453?
A fix for CVE-2026-18453 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-18453 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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