CVE-2020-1722
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.012 · 69 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-23
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.
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affected products (5)
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references (14)
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- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3936cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4670cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1722cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-1722cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1793071cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1722cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1722cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159353/Red-Hat-Security-Advisory-2020-3936-01.htmlcnnvd
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