CVE-2020-1722

5.3 mediumEPSS 1.2%

Medium (5.3). EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.3 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 69% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-400
Published: 2020-04-27
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

freeipa:freeipa
redhat:enterprise_linux

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1722
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1722

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