CVE-2025-4404Freeipa: idm: privilege escalation from host to domain admin in freeipa

Description

A privilege escalation from host to domain vulnerability was found in the FreeIPA project. The FreeIPA package fails to validate the uniqueness of the `krbCanonicalName` for the admin account by default, allowing users to create services with the same canonical name as the REALM admin. When a successful attack happens, the user can retrieve a Kerberos ticket in the name of this service, containing the admin@REALM credential. This flaw allows an attacker to perform administrative tasks over the REALM, leading to access to sensitive data and sensitive data exfiltration.

Timeline

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.

Affected products

• freeipa

  • affected < 4.12.4

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

  • unaffected 0:4.12.2-15.el10_0.1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support

  • unaffected 0:4.6.8-5.el7_9.18 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  • unaffected 8100020250603150652.143e9e98 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

  • unaffected 8100020250603134209.823393f5 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support

  • unaffected 8020020250609031831.50ea30f9 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support

  • unaffected 8020020250609030144.792f4060 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support

  • unaffected 8040020250609101903.f153676a – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support

  • unaffected 8040020250609095221.5b01ab7e – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support

  • unaffected 8060020250606060927.c1533a64 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support

  • unaffected 8060020250606060504.ada582f1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service

  • unaffected 8060020250606060927.c1533a64 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service

  • unaffected 8060020250606060504.ada582f1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions

  • unaffected 8060020250606060927.c1533a64 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions

  • unaffected 8060020250606060504.ada582f1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service

  • unaffected 8080020250604195510.e581a9e4 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service

  • unaffected 8080020250604202433.b0a6ceea – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions

  • unaffected 8080020250604195510.e581a9e4 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions

  • unaffected 8080020250604202433.b0a6ceea – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

  • unaffected 0:4.12.2-14.el9_6.1 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

  • unaffected 0:4.9.8-11.el9_0.4 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions

  • unaffected 0:4.10.1-12.el9_2.4 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support

  • unaffected 0:4.11.0-15.el9_4.5 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

  All versions: unknown

What to do

Workaround: No mitigation is currently available that meets Red Hat Product Security’s standards for usability, deployment, applicability, or stability.

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)
• EUVD EUVD-2025-18495 (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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 4 Nov 2026, 21:38 UTC.