CVE-2020-28873 - Fluxbb 1.5.11 is affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability by sending an extremely long password via the user login form

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HIGH

Fluxbb 1.5.11 is affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability by sending an extremely long password via the user login form

Published Mar 17, 2021

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.86%

Description

Fluxbb 1.5.11 is affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability by sending an extremely long password via the user login form. When a long password is sent, the password hashing process will result in CPU and memory exhaustion on the server.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-916

References (2)

Link	Providers	Tags
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2020-21264		Advisory
https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/long-password-denial-of-service/#:~:text=By%20sending%20a%20very%20long%2Ca%20vulnerable%20password%20hashing%20implementation