CVE-2016-8750

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.052 · 92 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

5.18% (92nd) EPSS

CVSS 4 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 2.9

v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.06.5mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.06mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-90USprimaryCWE-90US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache Karaf≤ prior to 4.0.8enisa_euvdEU
apache karaf< 4.0.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:karaf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.apache.karaf:apache-karaf< 4.0.8osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.karaf/apache-karaf

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-chj8-5xgw-wcvjModerate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.karaf:apache-karaf2019-01-07ghsa · osvUS
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.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-02-19modified 2026-06-17

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references (9)

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