PT-2026-78917 · Freeipa · Freeipa

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CVE-2026-73196

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Published

2026-08-20

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Updated

2026-08-21

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

VectorAV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeIPA (affected versions not specified)
Description A low-privilege authenticated user can cause a denial of service by submitting an oversized One-Time Password (OTP) key value. The system decodes and re-encodes this key without proper size limits, leading to excessive CPU and memory consumption that degrades the availability of the IPA service.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-73196

Affected Products

Freeipa