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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2016-5414 json

FreeIPA 4.4.0 allows remote attackers to request an arbitrary SAN name for services.

published 2017-06-27 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6359

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 63%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FreeIPA 4.4.0 allows remote attackers to request an arbitrary SAN name for services.

Patch / fix

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-2016-5414 updated cvss 5.3

freeipa: incorrect check for SubjectAltNames during CA ACL check

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ipa, ipa-client, ipa-python, ipa-server, ipa-admintools, ipa-server-selinux, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ipa, ipa-client, ipa-common, ipa-python, ipa-server, ipa-admintools, +8 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

1.03% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness

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.