Unscored CVE-2020-28873 EUVD-2020-21264GHSA-275f-jq4p-wxgw

Fluxbb 1.5.11 is affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability by sending an extremely long password via the user login form. When a …

Published Mar 17, 2021 · Updated Jul 9, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Fluxbb 1.5.11 is affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability by sending an extremely long password via the user login form. When a long password is sent, the password hashing process will result in CPU and memory exhaustion on the server.

References

https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/long-password-denial-of-service/#:~:text=By%20sending%20a%20very%20long%2Ca%20vulnerable%20password%20hashing%20implementation