Security advisory

{
  "id": "37ca0cecbcf6cedc653f1a904859c8ff6453b0a3a98ab44ad4c0bf9363bac65f",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-1722",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-1722",
    "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:CVE-2020-1722",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-1722",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-1722"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "1e58588ec274d5da0f020b2c6af2824313ea0ea7"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "15db87855109d8ffea2c5b12f092180eb2d4c852"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:freeipa:freeipa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "4.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "4.8.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "release-4-8-0",
            "rc_4-8-0-1",
            "rc_4-7-0-2",
            "rc_4-7-0-1",
            "release-4-4-1",
            "release-4-4-0",
            "alpha_1-4-4-0",
            "release-4-2-0",
            "alpha_1-4-2-0",
            "release-4-0-0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-1722.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:24.636037806Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1722"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "redhat:enterprise_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "6.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "6.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "7.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "8.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-1722",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431185,
  "published_at": "2020-04-27T21:15:13.64+00:00"
}