5.4

CVE-2020-1722: freeipa Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 5.4v2.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2020-1722DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1722
Published 27-04-2020Last modified 04-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2020-1722 is a medium (CVSS 5.4) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in freeipa. EPSS estimates a 1.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.4/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.24%
0%100%
Low · -0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2
RHSA-2020:3936RHSA-2020:4670

Timeline

  1. 27-04-2020
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.24%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

69%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.01 pp

From 1.25% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
1.24%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • freeipa< 4.8.8-2
Freeipa1 product
Red hat1 product
  • ipaall ipa versions 4.x.x through 4.8.0
Redhat1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • freeipaAll versions (No fix recorded)

5 vendors · 5 products

References

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