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CVE-2016-5404
The cert_revoke command in FreeIPA does not check for the "revoke certificate" permission, which allows remote authenticated users to…
Medium6.5EPSS 2.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
The cert_revoke command in FreeIPA does not check for the "revoke certificate" permission, which allows remote authenticated users to revoke arbitrary certificates by leveraging the "retrieve certificate" permission.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=cf74584d0f772f3f5eccc1d30c001e4212a104fd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-f56c765d67 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 92525 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160817 CVE-2016-5404 freeipa: Insufficient privileges check in certificate revocation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-92a3655b70 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2016-7898627d08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1797 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6232 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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