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CVE-2020-28873
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-03-17T13:15:14.937 · Last modified 2026-07-09T01:16:43.927

Summary

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.

Affected products

fluxbb — fluxbb

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References

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