CVE-2026-73198 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2026-73198 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	CNA (Red Hat)
Base Score	7.5
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1275990 [NEW]

SUSE Security Advisories:

RHSA-2026:70564, published Mon Sep 28 15:07:47 UTC 2026
RHSA-2026:72279, published Tue Sep 29 15:07:42 UTC 2026

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Liberty Linux 10	`ipa-client >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `ipa-client-common >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `ipa-client-encrypted-dns >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `ipa-client-epn >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `ipa-client-samba >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `ipa-common >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `ipa-selinux >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `ipa-selinux-luna >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `ipa-selinux-nfast >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `ipa-server >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `ipa-server-common >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `ipa-server-dns >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `ipa-server-encrypted-dns >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `ipa-server-trust-ad >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `python3-ipaclient >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `python3-ipalib >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `python3-ipaserver >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2` `python3-ipatests >= 4.13.4-1.el10_2`	Patchnames: RHSA-2026:72279 (x86_64)
SUSE Liberty Linux 9	`ipa-client >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `ipa-client-common >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `ipa-client-encrypted-dns >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `ipa-client-epn >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `ipa-client-samba >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `ipa-common >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `ipa-selinux >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `ipa-selinux-luna >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `ipa-selinux-nfast >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `ipa-server >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `ipa-server-common >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `ipa-server-dns >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `ipa-server-encrypted-dns >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `ipa-server-trust-ad >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `python3-ipaclient >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `python3-ipalib >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `python3-ipaserver >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8` `python3-ipatests >= 4.13.4-1.el9_8`	Patchnames: RHSA-2026:70564 (x86_64)

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Aug 21 15:47:22 2026
CVE page last modified: Wed Sep 30 11:59:22 2026