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Vulnerability · Published Apr 27, 2020 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2020-1722

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in ipa from Red Hat. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 69% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 30.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux:8custodia0.6.0-3.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92ALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-custodia0.6.0-3.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92ALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-jwcrypto0.5.0-1.module_el8.5.0+2641+983b221bALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-jwcrypto0.5.0-1.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92ALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-jwcrypto0.5.0-1.module_el8.6.0+2737+7e73ea90ALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-kdcproxy0.4-5.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92ALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-pyusb1.0.0-9.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92ALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-pyusb1.0.0-9.module_el8.5.0+2641+983b221bALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-pyusb1.0.0-9.module_el8.6.0+2737+7e73ea90ALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-qrcode5.1-12.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92ALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-qrcode5.1-12.module_el8.5.0+2641+983b221bALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-qrcode5.1-12.module_el8.6.0+2737+7e73ea90ALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-qrcode-core5.1-12.module_el8.6.0+2737+7e73ea90ALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-qrcode-core5.1-12.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92ALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-qrcode-core5.1-12.module_el8.5.0+2641+983b221bALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-yubico1.3.2-9.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92ALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-yubico1.3.2-9.module_el8.5.0+2641+983b221bALSA-2020:4670
AlmaLinux:8python3-yubico1.3.2-9.module_el8.6.0+2737+7e73ea90ALSA-2020:4670
Debian:12freeipa4.8.8-2DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1722
Debian:13freeipa4.8.8-2DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1722
Rocky Linux:8custodia0:0.6.0-3.module+el8.4.0+429+6bd33feaRLSA-2020:4670
Rocky Linux:8python-jwcrypto0:0.5.0-1.module+el8.4.0+429+6bd33feaRLSA-2020:4670
Rocky Linux:8python-jwcrypto0:0.5.0-1.1.module+el8.7.0+1074+aae18f3aRLSA-2020:4670
Rocky Linux:8python-kdcproxy0:0.4-5.module+el8.3.0+244+0b2ae752RLSA-2020:4670
Rocky Linux:8python-qrcode0:5.1-12.module+el8.4.0+429+6bd33feaRLSA-2020:4670
Rocky Linux:8python-yubico0:1.3.2-9.module+el8.4.0+429+6bd33feaRLSA-2020:4670
Rocky Linux:8python-yubico0:1.3.2-9.1.module+el8.7.0+1074+aae18f3aRLSA-2020:4670
Rocky Linux:8pyusb0:1.0.0-9.1.module+el8.7.0+1074+aae18f3aRLSA-2020:4670
Rocky Linux:8pyusb0:1.0.0-9.module+el8.4.0+429+6bd33feaRLSA-2020:4670
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSfreeipano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-1722
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSfreeipano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-1722
Ubuntu:25.10freeipano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-1722
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSfreeipano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-1722
Ubuntu:26.10freeipano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2020-1722

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Red Hat ipa all ipa versions 4.x.x through 4.8.0

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References