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freeipa — security advisory
A flaw was found in FreeIPA's idp-add command, where insufficiently validated --organization/--base-url input reaches a constrained eval() call before the corresponding LDAP access control check is enforced. This allows any authenticated IPA principal, regardless of privilege level, to enumerate and read the environment variables of the affected server process and to cause denial of service via memory exhaustion.
- Products
- freeipa
- Affected versions
- 3.2.1-0ubuntu1, 3.3.4-0ubuntu1, 3.3.4-0ubuntu2, 3.3.4-0ubuntu3, 3.3.4-0ubuntu3.1, 3.3.4-0ubuntu3.1+esm1, 4.1.4-1, 4.10.2-1, 4.10.2-2, 4.10.2-2ubuntu3, 4.11.1-1, 4.11.1-2, 4.12.4-1, 4.12.4-2, 4.13.1-1, 4.13.1-1build1, 4.3.1-0ubuntu1, 4.3.1-0ubuntu1+esm1, 4.4.4-3ubuntu1, 4.4.4-4, 4.7.0~pre1+git20180411-2ubuntu1, 4.7.0~pre1+git20180411-2ubuntu2, 4.8.1-2ubuntu1, 4.8.3-1, 4.8.6-1ubuntu2, 4.8.6-1ubuntu6, 4.8.6-1ubuntu8, 4.8.6-1ubuntu9, 4.9.8-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-79678
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 03:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in FreeIPA's idp-add command, where insufficiently validated --organization/--base-url input reaches a constrained eval() call before the corresponding LDAP access control check is enforced. This allows any authenticated IPA principal, regardless of privilege level, to enumerate and read the environment variables of the affected server process and to cause denial of service via memory exhaustion.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2026-79678
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Complete source record
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