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CVE-2016-5404
The cert_revoke command in FreeIPA does not check for the "revoke certificate" permission, which allows remote authenticated users to…
Medium6.5EPSS 2.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
The cert_revoke command in FreeIPA does not check for the "revoke certificate" permission, which allows remote authenticated users to revoke arbitrary certificates by leveraging the "retrieve certificate" permission.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=cf74584d0f772f3f5eccc1d30c001e4212a104fd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-f56c765d67 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 92525 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160817 CVE-2016-5404 freeipa: Insufficient privileges check in certificate revocation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-92a3655b70 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-7898627d08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1797 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6232 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
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