CVE-2016-9575

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-12-14
CWE:
CWE-863
Bugzilla:
1395311: CVE-2016-9575 ipa: Insufficient permission check in certprofile-mod
It was found that IdM's certprofile-mod command did not properly check the user's permissions while modifying certificate profiles. 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.

Find out more about CVE-2016-9575 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 6.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (ipa) RHSA-2017:0001 2017-01-02

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ipa Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Liam Campbell (Red Hat).

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