CVE-2024-1481 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A flaw was found in FreeIPA. This issue may allow a remote attacker to craft a HTTP request with parameters that can be interpreted as command arguments to kinit on the FreeIPA server, which can lead to a denial of service.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00246.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Redhat	Enterprise Linux

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Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
idm:client-8100020240307184541.6d180cd9	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8	RHSA-2024:3044	2024-05-22T00:00:00Z
idm:DL1-8100020240307185118.fc00487d	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8	RHSA-2024:3044	2024-05-22T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
ipa-0:4.11.0-9.el9_4	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9	RHSA-2024:2147	2024-04-30T00:00:00Z

No data.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

References

Link	Providers
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2147
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3044
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1481
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262169
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1481
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1481

History

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2024-04-10T20:39:31.175Z

Updated: 2025-08-03T05:55:16.947Z

Reserved: 2024-02-13T19:10:00.649Z

Link: CVE-2024-1481

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:40:21.202Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-04-10T21:15:06.313

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:50:40.563

Link: CVE-2024-1481

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-02-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-1481 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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