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CVE-2012-5484
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,…
High7.9EPSS 0.61%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.9 | AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.61% · top 51% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=31e41eea6c2322689826e6065ceba82551c565aa (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.freeipa.org/page/CVE-2012-5484 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/3.1.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=a1991aeac19c3fec1fdd0d184c6760c90c9f9fc9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=18eea90ebb24a9c22248f0b7e18646cc6e3e3e0f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0188 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=91f4af7e6af53e1c6bf17ed36cb2161863eddae4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=a40285c5a0288669b72f9d991508d4405885bffc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:0189 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .