CVE-2016-5404

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

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.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 23, 24, 25
FreeIPA ipa: all versions
Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 6, 7

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1797.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/17/9
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92525
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6232
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=cf74584d0f772f3f5eccc1d30c001e4212a104fd
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3PZ2ZQTMGC2UBRNHXVVOY3PJDOBP4CP4/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S5OROLKFSY5QRQS7NGBNDP5QMOBV3XMZ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VQDYWANTMDFZP3HTGSEOA2IONVUITYX5/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1797.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/17/9
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

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