Upstream information

CVE-2020-1722 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.4
Vector AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 7
  • ipa-client >= 4.6.8-5.el7
  • ipa-client-common >= 4.6.8-5.el7
  • ipa-common >= 4.6.8-5.el7
  • ipa-python-compat >= 4.6.8-5.el7
  • ipa-server >= 4.6.8-5.el7
  • ipa-server-common >= 4.6.8-5.el7
  • ipa-server-dns >= 4.6.8-5.el7
  • ipa-server-trust-ad >= 4.6.8-5.el7
  • python2-ipaclient >= 4.6.8-5.el7
  • python2-ipalib >= 4.6.8-5.el7
  • python2-ipaserver >= 4.6.8-5.el7
 Patchnames:
RHSA-2020:3936

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Apr 14 06:40:29 2020
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 30 18:06:53 2023