CVE-2017-2590: Freeipa

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability was found in ipa before 4.4. IdM's ca-del, ca-disable, and ca-enable commands did not properly check the user's permissions while modifying CAs in Dogtag. An authenticated, unauthorized attacker could use this flaw to delete, disable, or enable CAs causing various denial of service problems with certificate issuance, OCSP signing, and deletion of secret keys.

Affected products

• Freeipa Freeipa: before 4.4.0 (fixed in 4.4.0)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.