CVE-2020-28873 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://fluxbb.com https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/long-password-denial-of-service/#:~:text=By%20sending%20a%20very%20longa%20vulnerable%20password%20hashing%20implementation

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5