CVE-2020-1722
ipa: No password length restriction leads to denial of service
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · April 14, 2020
Updated · February 24, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in IPA. 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 score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption