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freeipa — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1722

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.

Products
freeipa
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
4.8.8-2
CVEs
CVE-2020-1722
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 13:28 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1722

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Apr 2020, 21:15 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1722

freeipa

Fixed versions: 4.8.8-2

freeipa

Fixed versions: 4.8.8-2

Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1722",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1722",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-26T12:02:28.210010547Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 452290,
  "published_at": "2020-04-27T21:15:13.64+00:00"
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