CVE-2016-7030

FreeIPA uses a default password policy that locks an account after 5 unsuccessful authentication attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by locking out the account in which system services run on.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2017-08-28

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-255

Affected products

• Freeipa (Freeipa)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0001.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/02/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94934
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1370493
• https://pagure.io/freeipa?id=6f1d927467e7907fd1991f88388d96c67c9bff61