CVE-2020-1722

MediumCVSS 5.3/10Last 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.3/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-400

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	ipa	all ipa versions 4.x.x through 4.8.0

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1722Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1722Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 27, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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