CVE-2020-1722

Summary

CVECVE-2020-1722
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-04-27 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-12 23:40:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Freeipa Freeipa All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
1793071 – (CVE-2020-1722) CVE-2020-1722 ipa: No password length restriction leads to denial of service CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
1793071 – (CVE-2020-1722) CVE-2020-1722 ipa: No password length restriction leads to denial of service MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159652 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for idm:dl1 and idm:client (ELSA-2020-4670)
  • 377492 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for ipa (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0169)
  • 940071 AlmaLinux Security Update for idm:DL1 and idm:client (ALSA-2020:4670)
  • 960340 Rocky Linux Security Update for idm:DL1 and idm:client (RLSA-2020:4670)
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