Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking in FreeIPA - CVE-2012-5631

 

Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking in FreeIPA - CVE-2012-5631

Published: November 25, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU35041
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-5631
CWE-ID: CWE-565
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: freeipa.org
Affected software:
FreeIPA

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

ipa 3.0 does not properly check server identity before sending credential containing cookies


How to mitigate CVE-2012-5631

Install update from vendor's website.

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