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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2017-2590 json

A vulnerability was found in ipa before 4.4.

published 2018-07-27 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-11768

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability was found in ipa before 4.4. IdM's ca-del, ca-disable, and ca-enable commands did not properly check the user's permissions while modifying CAs in Dogtag. An authenticated, unauthorized attacker could use this flaw to delete, disable, or enable CAs causing various denial of service problems with certificate issuance, OCSP signing, and deletion of secret keys.

Patch / fix

  • freeipa freeipa 4.4.0
  • ipa RHEL 7 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6
  • ipa-client RHEL 7 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6
  • ipa-common RHEL 7 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6
  • ipa-server RHEL 7 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6
  • ipa-admintools RHEL 7 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6
  • ipa-server-dns RHEL 7 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6
  • python2-ipalib RHEL 7 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6
  • ipa-client-common RHEL 7 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:0388

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-2590 updated cvss 8.1

ipa: Insufficient permission check for ca-del, ca-disable and ca-enable commands

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) ipa 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-client 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-common 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, python2-ipalib 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-client-common 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-python-compat 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) ipa-server 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-admintools 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-server-dns 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-server-common 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, python2-ipaserver 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-server-trust-ad 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) ipa 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-client 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-common 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, python2-ipalib 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-client-common 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-python-compat 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) ipa-server 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-admintools 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-server-dns 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-server-common 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, python2-ipaserver 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-server-trust-ad 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) ipa 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-client 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-common 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-server 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-admintools 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-server-dns 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, +7 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) ipa 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-client 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-common 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-server 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-admintools 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, ipa-server-dns 4.4.0-14.el7_3.6, +7 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0388
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ipa, ipa-client, ipa-python, ipa-server, ipa-admintools, ipa-server-selinux, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Red Hat ipa

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
  • CWE-275 Permission Issues

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.