CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-7493
9.1 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-09-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1220
Description
A privilege escalation flaw from host to domain administrator was found in FreeIPA. This vulnerability is similar to CVE-2025-4404, where it fails to validate the uniqueness of the krbCanonicalName. While the previously released version added validations for the admin@REALM credential, FreeIPA still does not validate the root@REALM canonical name, which can also be used as the realm administrator's name. This flaw allows an attacker to perform administrative tasks over the REALM, leading to access to sensitive data and sensitive data exfiltration.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1220 Insufficient Granularity of Access Control weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17084 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17085 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17086 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17087 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17088 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17129 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17645 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17646 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17647 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17648 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17649 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7493 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2389448 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/30/6 www.openwall.com