CVE-2016-5404

MEDIUM

Freeipa - Improper Access Control

Title source: rule

Description

The cert_revoke command in FreeIPA does not check for the "revoke certificate" permission, which allows remote authenticated users to revoke arbitrary certificates by leveraging the "retrieve certificate" permission.

References (9)

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1797.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/17/9

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92525

[Issue Tracking] https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6232

[Issue Tracking, Patch] https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=cf74584d0f772f3f5eccc1d30c001e4212a104fd

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3PZ2ZQTMGC2UBRNHXVVOY3PJDOBP4CP4/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S5OROLKFSY5QRQS7NGBNDP5QMOBV3XMZ/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VQDYWANTMDFZP3HTGSEOA2IONVUITYX5/

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0066

EPSS Percentile 70.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-284

Status published

Affected Products (7)

freeipa/freeipa

oracle/linux

fedoraproject/fedora

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Sep 07, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026