Description
FreeIPA uses a default password policy that locks an account after 5 unsuccessful authentication attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by locking out the account in which system services run on.
Published: 2017-08-28
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 1.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-7915 FreeIPA uses a default password policy that locks an account after 5 unsuccessful authentication attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by locking out the account in which system services run on.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4792-1 FreeIPA vulnerabilities
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00685}

epss

{'score': 0.01725}


Subscriptions

Freeipa Freeipa
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:50:46.149Z

Reserved: 2016-08-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-7030

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-08-28T15:29:01.533

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-7030

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-12-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-7030 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses