CVE-2020-28873

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort

Publication date:

17/03/2021

Last modified:

07/11/2023

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.50

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete