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CVE-2016-7030
FreeIPA uses a default password policy that locks an account after 5 unsuccessful authentication attempts, which allows remote attackers…
High7.5EPSS 4.7%
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- Updated
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.7% · top 8.1% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1370493 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 94934 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://pagure.io/freeipa?id=6f1d927467e7907fd1991f88388d96c67c9bff61 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:0001 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170102 freeIPA CVEs CVE-2016-9575 (insufficient permission check) & CVE-2016-7030 (DoS) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .