Medium severity · published Apr 27, 2020
CVE-2020-1722
A flaw was found in all ipa versions 4.x.x through 4.8.0
5.3
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in all ipa versions 4.x.x through 4.8.0. When sending a very long password (>= 1,000,000 characters) to the server, the password hashing process could exhaust memory and CPU leading to a denial of service and the website becoming unresponsive. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 69% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
6.0; 7.0; 8.0 · source: NVD
FR
Freeipa · Freeipa
4.0.0 through 4.8.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1722
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1722
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1722
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