CVE-2016-7030

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-08-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-255

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.

Affected products

FreeIPA ipa: 4.6.0

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
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

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