Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Aug 20, 2026· Updated Aug 20, 2026

CVE-2026-73196

Description

A flaw was found in FreeIPA. A low-privilege authenticated user can exploit this vulnerability by submitting an oversized One-Time Password (OTP) key value. This oversized key is then decoded and re-encoded without proper size limits, consuming excessive CPU and memory resources. This can lead to a denial of service, degrading the availability of the IPA service.

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Affected products

Freeipa/Freeipallm-fuzzy

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-73196nvd
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd

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