High severity · published Aug 28, 2017
CVE-2016-7030
FreeIPA uses a default password policy that locks an account after 5 unsuccessful authentication attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by locking…
7.5
CVSS
4.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
FreeIPA uses a default password policy that locks an account after 5 unsuccessful authentication attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by locking out the account in which system services run on.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.7% · higher than 92% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FR
Freeipa · Freeipa
4.6.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7030
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7030
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0001.html
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/02/5
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94934
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1370493
Third Party Advisory
https://pagure.io/freeipa?id=6f1d927467e7907fd1991f88388d96c67c9bff61
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