CVE-2016-5404 - Improper Access Control

Severity

40%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-09-07 20:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-12-27 16:08:00

Affected Software

FreeIPA

Fedora Project Fedora 23

23

Fedora 24

24

Fedora 25

25

References

RHSA-2016:1797

[oss-security] 20160817 CVE-2016-5404 freeipa: Insufficient privileges check in certificate revocation

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

Third Party Advisory

92525

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6232

Issue Tracking

https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=cf74584d0f772f3f5eccc1d30c001e4212a104fd

Issue Tracking, Patch

FEDORA-2016-92a3655b70

Third Party Advisory

FEDORA-2016-f56c765d67

Third Party Advisory

FEDORA-2016-7898627d08

Third Party Advisory

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