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CVE-2026-73196
medium 6.5
A flaw was found in FreeIPA. A low-privilege authenticated user can exploit this vulnerability by submitting an oversized One-Time Password (OTP) key value. This oversized key is then decoded and re-encoded without proper size limits, consuming excessive CPU and memory resources. This can lead to a denial of service, degrading the availability of the IPA service.
Details
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- Last changed
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- Weakness
- CWE-770
Severity
| Version | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | medium 4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
secalert@redhat.comSecondary |
| CVSS 3.1 | medium 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
nvd@nist.govPrimary |
Affected products
Vendor and product from the NVD’s CPE applicability statements. Versions and conditions are on the NVD’s page.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-73196Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2474712Issue TrackingVendor Advisory