Cryptographic issues in FreeIPA - CVE-2012-5484
Published: January 27, 2013 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43149
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-5484
CWE-ID: CWE-310
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: freeipa.org
Affected software:
FreeIPA
FreeIPA
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
The client in FreeIPA 2.x and 3.x before 3.1.2 does not properly obtain the Certification Authority (CA) certificate from the server, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a join procedure via a crafted certificate.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-5484
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=18eea90ebb24a9c22248f0b7e18646cc6e3e3e0f
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=31e41eea6c2322689826e6065ceba82551c565aa
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=91f4af7e6af53e1c6bf17ed36cb2161863eddae4
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=a1991aeac19c3fec1fdd0d184c6760c90c9f9fc9
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=a40285c5a0288669b72f9d991508d4405885bffc
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0188.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0189.html
- http://www.freeipa.org/page/CVE-2012-5484
- http://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/3.1.2