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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-11191

FreeIPA 4.x with API version 2.213 allows a remote authenticated users to bypass intended account-locking restrictions via an unlock action with an old session ID (for the same user account) that had been created for an earlier session. NOTE: Vendor states that issue does not exist in product and does not recognize this report as a valid security concern

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CVE-2017-11191

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 Sept 2017, 01:29 UTC

FreeIPA 4.x with API version 2.213 allows a remote authenticated users to bypass intended account-locking restrictions via an unlock action with an old session ID (for the same user account) that had been created for an earlier session. NOTE: Vendor states that issue does not exist in product and does not recognize this report as a valid security concern

osv:CVE-2017-11191
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-11191",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2017-11191",
    "summary": "FreeIPA 4.x with API version 2.213 allows a remote authenticated users to bypass intended account-locking restrictions via an unlock action with an old session ID (for the same user account) that had been created for an earlier session. NOTE: Vendor states that issue does not exist in product and does not recognize this report as a valid security concern",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-11191",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:19.636371535Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430069,
  "published_at": "2017-09-28T01:29:01.123+00:00"
}