CVE-2016-9575 Missing authorization in ipa
An authenticated unprivileged user can modify certificate profiles to issue arbitrary certificates, enabling privilege escalation and further attacks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-9575?
CVE-2016-9575 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in FreeIPA ipa, published on 13 Mar 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Ipa 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.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-9575?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Freeipa Freeipa.
How do I fix CVE-2016-9575?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2016-9575 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-9575 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2012-5631 Information disclosure in ipa
- CVE-2017-11191 Security feature bypass in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9575, GHSA-x7vx-p547-m5m5, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9575.