CVE-2020-1722

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CVSS 3.1

5.3 medium

EPSS

1%p62

Published

Apr 27, 2020 (Apr 27, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: freeipa redhat
Products: freeipa, enterprise linux
Weakness: CWE-400
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.1%)

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