What is CVE-2026-73196?

CVE-2026-73196 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2026-08-20.

How severe is CVE-2026-73196?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

CVE-2026-73196

A flaw was found in FreeIPA. A low-privilege authenticated user can exploit this vulnerability by submitting an oversized One-Time Password (OTP) key value. This oversized key is then decoded and re-encoded without proper size limits, consuming excessive CPU and memory resources. This can lead to a denial of service, degrading the availability of the IPA service.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vdb-entry)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-73196?: CVE-2026-73196 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2026-08-20.
How severe is CVE-2026-73196?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.