Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting ldap3_proto package, versions <0.7.1
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- published9 May 2026
- disclosed6 May 2026
- creditmbarbero
Introduced: 6 May 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-770 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade ldap3_proto to version 0.7.1 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling through the parsing of LDAP queries without validation of query depth, leading to stack exhaustion in the parser. An attacker can cause application downtime or service interruption by submitting deeply nested LDAP queries.