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CVE-2015-5284

Impact:: Important
Public Date:: 2015-10-08
CWE:: CWE-732

Bugzilla:: 1264790: CVE-2015-5284 ipa: ipa-kra-install includes certificate and private key in world readable file

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

ipa-kra-install in FreeIPA before 4.2.2 puts the CA agent certificate and private key in /etc/httpd/alias/kra-agent.pem, which is world readable.

Find out more about CVE-2015-5284 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of ipa as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 as they did not include the affected KRA subsystem.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score	5.5
Base Metrics	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	Single
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	None

Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).

Affected Packages State

Platform	Package	State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	ipa	Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	ipa	Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Jan Cholasta of Red Hat.

Last Modified 2018-04-28T04:22:18+00:00

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