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).
This vulnerability carries a HIGH severity rating with a CVSS v3.1 score of 8.1, indicating it can be exploited remotely over the network with relatively low complexity without requiring user interaction requiring only low-level privileges . The vulnerability impacts confidentiality (data exposure), integrity (unauthorized modifications), for affected systems. Impacting 5 products from redhat, from redhat, from redhat and 2 others, organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Reported in 2024, this vulnerability emerged during an era marked by increased sophistication in supply chain attacks, cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) security challenges. Security practices during this period emphasized zero-trust architectures, container security, and API protection.
2024-06-12T09:15:18.683
2024-11-21T09:29:05.900
Modified
CVSSv3.1: 8.1 (HIGH)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.0 | Yes |
| Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux | 8.0 | Yes |
| Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux_aus | 8.2 | Yes |
| Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux_aus | 8.4 | Yes |
| Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux_aus | 8.6 | Yes |
| Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux_eus | 8.8 | Yes |
| Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux_tus | 8.4 | Yes |
| Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux_tus | 8.6 | Yes |
| Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux_update_services_for_sap_solutions | 8.4 | Yes |
| Operating System | redhat | enterprise_linux_update_services_for_sap_solutions | 8.6 | Yes |
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