What is CVE-2020-1722?

CVE-2020-1722 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freeipa, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-04-27.

How severe is CVE-2020-1722?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Freeipa

CVE-2020-1722

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.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.011 (60.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Freeipa
Red Hat Ipa — versions all ipa versions 4.x.x through 4.8.0
Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-1722?: CVE-2020-1722 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Freeipa, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2020-04-27.
How severe is CVE-2020-1722?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.