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CVE-2024-1481: Freeipa: specially crafted http requests potentially lead to denial of service

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

A flaw was found in FreeIPA. This issue may allow a remote attacker to craft a HTTP request with parameters that can be interpreted as command arguments to kinit on the FreeIPA server, which can lead to a denial of service.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: all versions — fixed in 8100020240307184541.6d180cd9, 8100020240307185118.fc00487d
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: all versions — fixed in 0:4.11.0-9.el9_4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 8100020240307184541.6d180cd9, 8100020240307185118.fc00487d; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 0:4.11.0-9.el9_4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2147
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3044
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1481
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262169
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2147
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3044
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1481
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262169
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00026.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FKTET3PAOMCHBXUUY37X556PVA3DFQES/

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