Security advisory

{
  "id": "2d30e688207e8b735f0eb39ef0a57f8f9ae1c0207243f3c6fde7bcfc8ceae35a",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5404",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-5404",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-5404",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-5404",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-5404"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0b36ce6dcbfc8d7e6cda632e06a09c369428a2db"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "0b36ce6dcbfc8d7e6cda632e06a09c369428a2db"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "6"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "6"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "6",
            "milestone_6"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5404.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:21.477704229Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3PZ2ZQTMGC2UBRNHXVVOY3PJDOBP4CP4/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S5OROLKFSY5QRQS7NGBNDP5QMOBV3XMZ/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VQDYWANTMDFZP3HTGSEOA2IONVUITYX5/",
        "https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6232",
        "https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=cf74584d0f772f3f5eccc1d30c001e4212a104fd"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "23"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "23"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "24"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "24"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "25"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "25"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "oracle:linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "7"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "7"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-5404",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430486,
  "published_at": "2016-09-07T20:59:01.623+00:00"
}