Medium
Security advisory
Ipa versions 4.2.x, 4.3.x before 4.3.3 and 4.4.x before 4.4.3 did not properly check the user's permissions while modifying certificate profiles in IdM's certprofile-mod command. An authenticated, unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to modify profiles to issue certificates with arbitrary naming or key usage information and subsequently use such certificates for other attacks.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-9575
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:13 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Ipa versions 4.2.x, 4.3.x before 4.3.3 and 4.4.x before 4.4.3 did not properly check the user's permissions while modifying certificate profiles in IdM's certprofile-mod command. An authenticated, unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to modify profiles to issue certificates with arbitrary naming or key usage information and subsequently use such certificates for other attacks.
osv:CVE-2016-9575
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:04.426179538Z",
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"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2018-03-13T13:29:00.217+00:00"
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