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CentOS 6 / 7 : ipa (CESA-2016:1797)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 93318

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for ipa is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) is a centralized authentication, identity management, and authorization solution for both traditional and cloud-based enterprise environments.

Security Fix(es) :

* An insufficient permission check issue was found in the way IPA server treats certificate revocation requests. An attacker logged in with the 'retrieve certificate' permission enabled could use this flaw to revoke certificates, possibly triggering a denial of service attack. (CVE-2016-5404)

This issue was discovered by Fraser Tweedale (Red Hat).

Solution

Update the affected ipa packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?86e5591e

http://www.nessus.org/u?051d2fee

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 93318

File Name: centos_RHSA-2016-1797.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/6/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5404

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ipa-python, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ipa-server-selinux, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ipa-server-dns, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ipa-client, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ipa-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ipa-admintools, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ipa-server-trust-ad

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/5/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5404

RHSA: 2016:1797