CVE record · CVE-2025-2487

389-ds-base: null pointer dereference leads to denial of service

CVSS 4.9 MediumEPSS 0.0060 · 48th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 18 Mar 2025, 16:25 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	Not given Package name: 389-ds-base https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/	affected 2.4.0 to 2.4.6, inclusive semver affected 2.5.0 to 2.5.3, inclusive semver affected 2.6.0 to 2.6.1, inclusive semver affected 3.0.0 to 3.0.6, inclusive semver Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Directory Server 12.4 EUS for RHEL 9 Package name: redhat-ds:12 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 9040020250325181857.1674d574 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: 389-ds-base https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:2.5.2-9.el9_5 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: 389-ds-base https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:2.6.1-8.el9_6 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support Package name: 389-ds-base https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:2.4.5-14.el9_4 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Directory Server 12 Package name: redhat-ds:12/389-ds-base https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: 389-ds-base https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: 389-ds-base https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unknown
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: 389-ds-base https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unknown
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: 389-ds:1.4/389-ds-base https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unknown

Identifiers: CVE-2025-2487
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-476
Tags: Red Hat Directory Server 12.4 EUS for RHEL 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support
Red Hat Directory Server 12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Memory corruption
Published: 18 Mar 2025
Updated: 5 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
4.9	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0060, the 48th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

18 Mar 2025, 16:25 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
18 Mar 2025, 17:15 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3663 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3670 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4491 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7395 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2487 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2353071 issue-trackingredhat
github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/security/advisories/GHSA-426r-w669-66gw

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.