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CVE-2026-73198

high

A flaw was found in FreeIPA.

Vendor / product: Redhat — enterprise linux

A flaw was found in FreeIPA. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit a vulnerability in the `/ipa/i18n_messages` endpoint by sending an arbitrarily large request body. This can cause the service to consume excessive memory, leading to memory exhaustion, degraded responsiveness, and a denial of service (DoS) condition.

CVSS
7.5
7.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-08-20 11:16
Modified: 2026-11-05 00:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 1 hour ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-05 00:39 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

redhat / enterprise_linux 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
freeipa / freeipa <4.13.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-73198
Vendor advisory: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2472960

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-05 00:39 UTC · record ↗

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