CVE-2020-1722

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1722
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-1722.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-1722
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-04-27T21:15:13.640Z
Modified
2026-03-13T22:01:35.043255Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/freeipa/freeipa

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa
Events
Introduced
1e58588ec274d5da0f020b2c6af2824313ea0ea7
Last affected
15db87855109d8ffea2c5b12f092180eb2d4c852
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "4.0.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.8.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
alpha_1-4-2-0
alpha_1-4-4-0
rc_4-7-0-1
rc_4-7-0-2
rc_4-8-0-1
release-4-0-0
release-4-2-0
release-4-4-0
release-4-4-1
release-4-8-0

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "6.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-1722.json"