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:

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: Mon Sep 28 20:49:19 2026