A flaw was found in FreeIPA. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit a vulnerability in the `/ipa/i18n_messages` endpoint by sending an arbitrarily large request body. This can cause the service to consume excessive memory, leading to memory exhaustion, degraded responsiveness, and a denial of service (DoS) condition.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-73198 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2472960 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 3
- References+1 references (now 11)NVD modified 2026-10-26 14:16
- References+2 references (now 10)NVD modified 2026-10-15 06:17
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · redhat, freeipaNVD modified 2026-10-14 23:19
Affected (CPE criteria) 6
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:freeipa:freeipa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 11
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70564
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72279
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82935
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83083
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83084
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83085
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83460
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83461
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:89836
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-73198 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2472960 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory