CVE-2012-5484
HIGH · CVSS 7.9EPSS 0.6%EU EUVD
The client in FreeIPA 2.x and 3.x before 3.1.2 does not properly obtain the Certification Authority (CA) certificate from the server, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a join procedure via a crafted certificate.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-310
- EPSS score
- 0.6% (49th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-0010)
- Published
- January 27, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-0010 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- redhat / freeipa
- redhat / freeipa
- redhat / freeipa
- redhat / freeipa
- redhat / freeipa
- redhat / freeipa
- redhat / freeipa
- redhat / freeipa
- redhat / freeipa
- redhat / freeipa
- redhat / freeipa
References
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=18eea90ebb24a9c22248f0b7e18646cc6e3e3e0f
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=31e41eea6c2322689826e6065ceba82551c565aa
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=91f4af7e6af53e1c6bf17ed36cb2161863eddae4
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=a1991aeac19c3fec1fdd0d184c6760c90c9f9fc9
- http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/commit/?id=a40285c5a0288669b72f9d991508d4405885bffc
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0188.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0189.html
- http://www.freeipa.org/page/CVE-2012-5484(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/3.1.2
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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