Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere Affecting freeipa package, versions [,4.12.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEIPA-8631676
  • published16 Jan 2025
  • disclosed15 Jan 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Jan 2025

NewCVE-2024-11029  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-497  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freeipa to version 4.12.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere due to the API audit process, which allows an attacker to access sensitive administrative credentials by exploiting the logging mechanism which inadvertently captures and stores these credentials in the system logs.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1