{"id":71417,"date":"2025-10-11T01:45:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-61912-python-ldap-vulnerable-to-improper-encoding-or-escaping-of-output-and-improper-null-termination\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T01:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:15:37","slug":"cve-2025-61912-python-ldap-vulnerable-to-improper-encoding-or-escaping-of-output-and-improper-null-termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-61912-python-ldap-vulnerable-to-improper-encoding-or-escaping-of-output-and-improper-null-termination\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-61912 &#8211; python-ldap Vulnerable to Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output and Improper Null Termination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-61912<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Oct. 10, 2025, 10:15 p.m. | 23\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : python-ldap is a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) client API for Python. In versions prior to 3.4.5, ldap.dn.escape_dn_chars() escapes x00 incorrectly by emitting a backslash followed by a literal NUL byte instead of the RFC-4514 hex form 0. Any application that uses this helper to construct DNs from untrusted input can be made to consistently fail before a request is sent to the LDAP server (e.g., AD), resulting in a client-side denial of service. Version 3.4.5 contains a patch for the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 5.5 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-61912 Published : Oct. 10, 2025, 10:15 p.m. | 23\u00a0minutes ago Description : python-ldap is a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) client API for Python. In versions prior to 3.4.5, ldap.dn.escape_dn_chars() escapes x00 incorrectly by emitting a backslash followed by a literal NUL byte instead of the RFC-4514 hex form 0. Any &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}