Ipa: invalid csrf protection

Description

A Cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in ipa/session/login_password in all supported versions of IPA. This flaw allows an attacker to trick the user into submitting a request that could perform actions as the user, resulting in a loss of confidentiality and system integrity. During community penetration testing it was found that for certain HTTP end-points FreeIPA does not ensure CSRF protection. Due to implementation details one cannot use this flaw for reflection of a cookie representing already logged-in user. An attacker would always have to go through a new authentication attempt.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.57% · top 52% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-352 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

  • unaffected 0:4.6.8-5.el7_9.16 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  • unaffected 8090020231201152514.3387e3d0 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support

  • unaffected 8020020231123154806.792f4060 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service

  • unaffected 8020020231123154806.792f4060 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions

  • unaffected 8020020231123154806.792f4060 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support

  • unaffected 8040020231123154610.5b01ab7e – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service

  • unaffected 8040020231123154610.5b01ab7e – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions

  • unaffected 8040020231123154610.5b01ab7e – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support

  • unaffected 8060020231208020207.ada582f1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support

  • unaffected 8080020231201153604.b0a6ceea – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

  • unaffected 0:4.10.2-5.el9_3 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support

  • unaffected 0:4.9.8-9.el9_0 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support

  • unaffected 0:4.10.1-10.el9_2 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

  All versions: unknown

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  All versions: unaffected

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  All versions: unaffected

What to do

Workaround: Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.

References (18)

• RHSA-2024:0137 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:0138 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:0139 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:0140 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:0141 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:0142 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:0143 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:0144 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHSA-2024:0145 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5455 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• RHBZ#2242828 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-10-3.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-11-1.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-6-10.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-9-14.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• RHSA-2024:0252 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/U76DAZZVY7V4XQBOOV5ETPTHW3A6MW5O/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UFNUQH7IOHTKCTKQWFHONWGUBOUANL6I/ (opens in a new tab)x_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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2023-5455](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2023-5455.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-5455)

Record last updated 5 Nov 2026, 11:35 UTC.