What is CVE-2016-8750?

CVE-2016-8750 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Karaf, classified under LDAP Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-02-19.

How severe is CVE-2016-8750?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

LDAP Injection in Apache Karaf

CVE-2016-8750

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.

Published 2018-02-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.052 (92.5th percentile), scored 2026-11-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.052 · newest: 0.052 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Apache Karaf
Apache Software Foundation Karaf — versions prior to 4.0.8

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-90 — LDAP Injection

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1322 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
karaf.apache.org/security/cve-2016-8750.txt (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/103098 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-8750?: CVE-2016-8750 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Karaf, classified under LDAP Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-02-19.
How severe is CVE-2016-8750?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.