CVE-2016-9575: Freeipa

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Freeipa Freeipa: version 4.2.0 only; version 4.2.1 only; version 4.2.2 only; version 4.2.3 only; version 4.2.4 only; version 4.3.0 only; …

Published 2018-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.