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CVE-2024-3183: Freeipa: user can obtain a hash of the passwords of all domain users and perform offline brute force
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2024-06-12 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-916
Description
A vulnerability was found in FreeIPA in a way when a Kerberos TGS-REQ is encrypted using the client’s session key. This key is different for each new session, which protects it from brute force attacks. However, the ticket it contains is encrypted using the target principal key directly. For user principals, this key is a hash of a public per-principal randomly-generated salt and the user’s password. If a principal is compromised it means the attacker would be able to retrieve tickets encrypted to any principal, all of them being encrypted by their own key directly. By taking these tickets and salts offline, the attacker could run brute force attacks to find character strings able to decrypt tickets when combined to a principal salt (i.e. find the principal’s password).
Affected products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 8.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Aus: 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 8.8
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Tus: 8.4, 8.6
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Update Services For Sap Solutions: 8.4, 8.6
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3754
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3755
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3756
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3757
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3758
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3759
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3760
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3761
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3775
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3183
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2270685
- https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-12-1.html
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