Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-28873 - Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort vulnerability in Fluxbb 1.5.11

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
fluxbb
CWE-916

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Fluxbb
1