freeipa — security advisory
A Cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in ipa/session/login_password in all supported versions of IPA. This flaw allows an attacker to trick the user into submitting a request that could perform actions as the user, resulting in a loss of confidentiality and system integrity. During community penetration testing it was found that for certain HTTP end-points FreeIPA does not ensure CSRF protection. Due to implementation details one cannot use this flaw for reflection of a cookie representing already logged-in user. An attacker would always have to go through a new authentication attempt.
- Products
- freeipa
- Affected versions
- 4.10.1+dfsg1-1+exp1, 4.10.1-1+exp1, 4.10.2-1, 4.10.2-2, 4.10.2-2+exp1, 4.11.1-1, 4.11.1-1+exp1, 4.11.1-2, 4.11.1-2+exp1, 4.11.1-2.1, 4.12.2-1, 4.12.2-2, 4.12.2-3, 4.12.4-1, 4.12.4-2, 4.13.1-1, 4.9.11-1, 4.9.11-1+exp1, 4.9.11-2
- Fixed versions
- 4.11.1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-5455
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:17 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A Cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in ipa/session/login_password in all supported versions of IPA. This flaw allows an attacker to trick the user into submitting a request that could perform actions as the user, resulting in a loss of confidentiality and system integrity. During community penetration testing it was found that for certain HTTP end-points FreeIPA does not ensure CSRF protection. Due to implementation details one cannot use this flaw for reflection of a cookie representing already logged-in user. An attacker would always have to go through a new authentication attempt.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5455
freeipa
Fixed versions: Not specified
freeipa
Fixed versions: 4.11.1-1
Complete source record
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