CVE-2016-20013 (GCVE-0-2016-20013)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-19 04:17 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:47
VLAI
Summary
sha256crypt and sha512crypt through 0.6 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) because the algorithm's runtime is proportional to the square of the length of the password.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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