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ipa: authentication bypass

Package(s):ipa CVE #(s):CVE-2012-5484
Created:January 24, 2013 Updated:February 25, 2013
Description:

From the Red Hat advisory:

A weakness was found in the way IPA clients communicated with IPA servers when initially attempting to join IPA domains. As there was no secure way to provide the IPA server's Certificate Authority (CA) certificate to the client during a join, the IPA client enrollment process was susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. This flaw could allow an attacker to obtain access to the IPA server using the credentials provided by an IPA client, including administrative access to the entire domain if the join was performed using an administrator's credentials. (CVE-2012-5484)

Note: This weakness was only exposed during the initial client join to the realm, because the IPA client did not yet have the CA certificate of the server. Once an IPA client has joined the realm and has obtained the CA certificate of the IPA server, all further communication is secure. If a client were using the OTP (one-time password) method to join to the realm, an attacker could only obtain unprivileged access to the server (enough to only join the realm).

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2013:0188-01 2013-01-23
Red Hat RHSA-2013:0189-01 2013-01-23
CentOS CESA-2013:0189 2013-01-23
CentOS CESA-2013:0188 2013-01-24
Oracle ELSA-2013-0188 2013-01-23
Oracle ELSA-2013-0189 2013-01-24
Scientific Linux SL-ipa-20130124 2013-01-24
Scientific Linux SL-ipa--20130124 2013-01-24
Fedora FEDORA-2013-1445 2013-02-02
Fedora FEDORA-2013-2434 2013-02-23

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