CVE-2012-5484

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2013-01-23
Bugzilla:
876307: CVE-2012-5484 ipa: weakness when initiating join from IPA client can potentially compromise IPA domain

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2012-5484 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (ipa-client) RHSA-2013:0189 2013-01-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (ipa) RHSA-2013:0188 2013-01-23

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Petr Menšík for reporting this issue.

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