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Fencer Intel
medium 6.5

CVE-2016-8750 json

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.karaf:apache-karaf

published 2018-02-19 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-chj8-5xgw-wcvj , EUVD-2019-0184

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.2%
EPSS 5.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Apache Karaf prior to 4.0.8 used the LDAPLoginModule to authenticate users to a directory via LDAP. However, it did not encoding usernames properly and hence was vulnerable to LDAP injection attacks leading to a denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.karaf:apache-karaf 4.0.8
  • apache karaf 4.0.8

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-8750 updated cvss 7.5

karaf: LDAP injection in LDAPLoginModule

  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 karaf karaf
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11 (Ocata) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12 (Pike) opendaylight
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) opendaylight
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3 Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:1322

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.karaf:apache-karaf
<4.0.8
4.0.8

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Karaf

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-90 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an LDAP Query

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.