CVE-2020-1722
First published: Mon Jan 20 2020(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| redhat/ipa | <0:4.6.8-5.el7 | 0:4.6.8-5.el7 |
| Freeipa Freeipa | >=4.0.0<=4.8.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =6.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =7.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =8.0 |
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Reference Links
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1722
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1823621
- https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/8268
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3936
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-1722
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4670
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1793071
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-1722 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1722
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