CVE-2020-1722

NameCVE-2020-1722
DescriptionA 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs966200

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
freeipa (PTS)buster (security), buster, buster (lts)4.7.2-3+deb10u1vulnerable
bookworm4.9.11-1fixed
sid4.12.2-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
freeipasource(unstable)4.8.8-2966200

Notes

[buster] - freeipa <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/8268
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1793071
https://pagure.io/freeipa/c/dbf5df4a66b68f62a9e063c43a30b46e539c603b (master)
https://pagure.io/freeipa/c/089a393581aa249ddec66ce1455fff4951cdb827 (ipa-4-8)

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