CVE-2016-7030

ipa: DoS attack against kerberized services by abusing password policy

Published Aug 28, 2017 CVSS 3.0 · 7.5 High EPSS 4.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-7915 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4792-1 FreeIPA vulnerabilities
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00685}

epss

{'score': 0.01725}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 1:50 AM
Reserved
Aug 23, 2016, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 28, 2017, 3:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:52 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Dec 14, 2016, 12:00 AM