Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-9167

Title: Novell Edirectory Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-9167.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Mar 23, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-9167: NDSD in Novell eDirectory before 9.0.2 did not calculate ACLs on LDAP objects across partition boundaries correctly, which could lead to a privilege escalation by modifying user attributes that would otherwise be filtered by an ACL.

Impacted Vendors

novell 1

netiq 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97315 https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7016794 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97315 https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7016794

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns