CVE-2008-3274

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The default configuration of Red Hat Enterprise IPA 1.0.0 and FreeIPA before 1.1.1 places ldap:///anyone on the read ACL for the krbMKey attribute, which allows remote attackers to obtain the Kerberos master key via an anonymous LDAP query.

Affected products

RedHat Enterprise Ipa: 1.0.0
RedHat Freeipa: through 1.1.0; 0.99, 1.0.0

References

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/freeipa.git/?p=freeipa.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9932887f2af38b9701efec27707648c026ec445c
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0860.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31861
http://www.freeipa.org/page/CVE-2008-3274
http://www.freeipa.org/page/Downloads
http://www.freeipa.org/page/News
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31111
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020850
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457835
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00733.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00743.html
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/freeipa.git/?p=freeipa.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9932887f2af38b9701efec27707648c026ec445c

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