CVE-2016-9575

Summary

CVECVE-2016-9575
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-13 13:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:20:00 UTC
DescriptionIpa versions 4.2.x, 4.3.x before 4.3.3 and 4.4.x before 4.4.3 did not properly check the user's permissions while modifying certificate profiles in IdM's certprofile-mod command. An authenticated, unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to modify profiles to issue certificates with arbitrary naming or key usage information and subsequently use such certificates for other attacks.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-285

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.2.0 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.2.0 alpha1 All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.2.1 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.2.2 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.2.3 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.2.4 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.3.0 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.3.1 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.3.2 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.4.0 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.4.1 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.4.2 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.2.0 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.2.0 alpha1 All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.2.1 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.2.2 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.2.3 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.2.4 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.3.0 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.3.1 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.3.2 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.4.0 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.4.1 All All All
Application Freeipa Freeipa 4.4.2 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1395311 – (CVE-2016-9575) CVE-2016-9575 ipa: Insufficient permission check in certprofile-mod CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
FreeIPA CVE-2016-9575 Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 378104 Virtuozzo Linux Security Update for ipa-server (VZLSA-2017:0001)
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