CVE-2026-78701

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.56.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-25. A secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
6.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.8%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit a vulnerability in the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) UNBIND process. By sending a specially crafted request, the attacker can cause a connection to stall, leading to resource exhaustion and a Denial of Service (DoS) for the server.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
30
EG Risk 30/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity65% × 45%
The EG Score, 6.5 of 10.
Exploitation0.8% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (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.
EPSS PROB
0.8%
EPSS %ILE
54th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (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)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (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

August 25, 2026

Last Modified

October 9, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 25, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red Hat

2523232 – (CVE-2026-78701) CVE-2026-78701 389-ds-base: 389-ds-base: CVE-2026-11610 incomplete fix may introduce a connection-stall DoS

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2523232
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-78701 - 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-2026-78701

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-78701(4)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatdirsrv/dirsrv-container-rhel10:17888517652026-09-08redhat
redhat389-ds-base-0:3.2.0-10.el10_22026-09-08redhat
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.

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 99× 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 it from the CNA feed. 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). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 171 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 72 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  2. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  3. 2026-10-12 15:36 UTCEG score recompute
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  7. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  8. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  9. 2026-10-10 12:22 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-10 12:22 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-10 12:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  12. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  13. 2026-10-09 00:21 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-09 00:21 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-09 00:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  16. 2026-10-08 23:33 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-08 23:33 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-08 23:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  19. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  20. 2026-10-08 06:02 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-08 06:02 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-08 06:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  23. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  24. 2026-10-07 04:19 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-07 04:19 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-07 04:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  2. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  3. 2026-10-06 02:40 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-06 02:40 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-06 02:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  6. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  7. 2026-10-04 20:36 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-04 20:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  9. 2026-10-03 16:28 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-03 16:28 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-03 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  12. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  13. 2026-10-02 10:14 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-02 10:14 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-02 10:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  16. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  17. 2026-10-01 08:35 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-01 08:35 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-01 08:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  20. 2026-09-30 06:53 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-30 06:53 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-09-30 06:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  23. 2026-09-29 15:24 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  24. 2026-09-29 01:37 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-29 01:37 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-09-29 01:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  27. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  28. 2026-09-27 23:52 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-09-27 23:52 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-09-27 23:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  31. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  32. 2026-09-26 22:10 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-09-26 22:10 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-09-26 22:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  35. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 54th percentile
  36. 2026-09-26 00:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 53rd percentile
  37. 2026-09-25 01:06 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-09-25 01:06 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-09-25 01:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  40. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.8% · 53rd percentile
  41. 2026-09-23 23:27 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-09-23 23:27 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-09-23 23:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  44. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  45. 2026-09-22 21:30 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-09-22 21:30 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-09-22 21:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  48. 2026-09-22 16:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
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  51. 2026-09-21 19:51 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-09-21 19:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  53. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  54. 2026-09-20 18:12 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-09-20 18:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  56. 2026-09-19 16:26 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-09-19 16:26 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-09-19 16:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  59. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  60. 2026-09-18 14:47 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-09-18 14:47 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-09-18 14:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  63. 2026-09-17 13:08 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-09-17 13:08 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-09-17 13:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  66. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  67. 2026-09-16 10:52 UTCEG score recompute
  68. 2026-09-16 10:52 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-09-16 10:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  70. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  71. 2026-09-15 09:13 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-09-15 09:13 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-09-15 09:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xmh3-2gr9-2rwp · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  74. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-78701?
CVE-2026-78701 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 25, 2026. A flaw was found in 389-ds-base. A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit a vulnerability in the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) UNBIND process. By sending a specially crafted request, the attacker can cause a connection to stall, leading to resource exhaustion and a Denial of…
When was CVE-2026-78701 made public?
CVE-2026-78701 was made public on August 24, 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 August 25, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 9, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-78701 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-78701 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (54th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-78701?
CVE-2026-78701 has a CVSS base score of 6.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-78701?
A fix for CVE-2026-78701 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-78701 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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