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.
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
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux:8 | custodia | 0.6.0-3.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92 | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-custodia | 0.6.0-3.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92 | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-jwcrypto | 0.5.0-1.module_el8.5.0+2641+983b221b | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-jwcrypto | 0.5.0-1.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92 | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-jwcrypto | 0.5.0-1.module_el8.6.0+2737+7e73ea90 | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-kdcproxy | 0.4-5.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92 | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-pyusb | 1.0.0-9.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92 | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-pyusb | 1.0.0-9.module_el8.5.0+2641+983b221b | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-pyusb | 1.0.0-9.module_el8.6.0+2737+7e73ea90 | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-qrcode | 5.1-12.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92 | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-qrcode | 5.1-12.module_el8.5.0+2641+983b221b | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-qrcode | 5.1-12.module_el8.6.0+2737+7e73ea90 | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-qrcode-core | 5.1-12.module_el8.6.0+2737+7e73ea90 | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-qrcode-core | 5.1-12.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92 | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-qrcode-core | 5.1-12.module_el8.5.0+2641+983b221b | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-yubico | 1.3.2-9.module_el8.6.0+2881+2f24dc92 | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-yubico | 1.3.2-9.module_el8.5.0+2641+983b221b | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| AlmaLinux:8 | python3-yubico | 1.3.2-9.module_el8.6.0+2737+7e73ea90 | ALSA-2020:4670 |
| Debian:12 | freeipa | 4.8.8-2 | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1722 |
| Debian:13 | freeipa | 4.8.8-2 | DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1722 |
| Rocky Linux:8 | custodia | 0:0.6.0-3.module+el8.4.0+429+6bd33fea | RLSA-2020:4670 |
| Rocky Linux:8 | python-jwcrypto | 0:0.5.0-1.module+el8.4.0+429+6bd33fea | RLSA-2020:4670 |
| Rocky Linux:8 | python-jwcrypto | 0:0.5.0-1.1.module+el8.7.0+1074+aae18f3a | RLSA-2020:4670 |
| Rocky Linux:8 | python-kdcproxy | 0:0.4-5.module+el8.3.0+244+0b2ae752 | RLSA-2020:4670 |
| Rocky Linux:8 | python-qrcode | 0:5.1-12.module+el8.4.0+429+6bd33fea | RLSA-2020:4670 |
| Rocky Linux:8 | python-yubico | 0:1.3.2-9.module+el8.4.0+429+6bd33fea | RLSA-2020:4670 |
| Rocky Linux:8 | python-yubico | 0:1.3.2-9.1.module+el8.7.0+1074+aae18f3a | RLSA-2020:4670 |
| Rocky Linux:8 | pyusb | 0:1.0.0-9.1.module+el8.7.0+1074+aae18f3a | RLSA-2020:4670 |
| Rocky Linux:8 | pyusb | 0:1.0.0-9.module+el8.4.0+429+6bd33fea | RLSA-2020:4670 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | freeipa | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-1722 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | freeipa | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-1722 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | freeipa | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-1722 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | freeipa | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-1722 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | freeipa | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2020-1722 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1722 x_refsource_CONFIRM