CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-28873

7.5 HIGH Published 2021-03-17 Modified 2026-07-09 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-03-17
Last modified
2026-07-09
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-916

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 configurations

• fluxbb fluxbb 1.5.11

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-916 Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort weakness

References