CVE-2012-5484
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
7.9
VIR risk
7.9
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.freeipa.org/page/CVE-2012-5484
References
- 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
CWEs
CWE-310
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.