CVE-2025-7493 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2025-7493

Freeipa: idm: privilege escalation from host to domain admin in freeipa

Vulnerability Description

A privilege escalation flaw from host to domain administrator was found in FreeIPA. This vulnerability is similar to CVE-2025-4404, where it fails to validate the uniqueness of the krbCanonicalName. While the previously released version added validations for the admin@REALM credential, FreeIPA still does not validate the root@REALM canonical name, which can also be used as the realm administrator's name. This flaw allows an attacker to perform administrative tasks over the REALM, leading to access to sensitive data and sensitive data exfiltration.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Red Hat would like to thank Tom Smith for reporting this issue.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Vulnerable Versions:
0:4.12.2-15.el10_0.4, 0:4.6.8-5.el7_9.23, 8100020250919180242.143e9e98, 8100020250918211722.823393f5, 8020020250924110056.50ea30f9, 8020020250924104944.792f4060, 8040020250923180004.f153676a, 8040020250923175408.5b01ab7e, 8060020250916172436.c1533a64, 8060020250916174421.ada582f1, 8080020250918184739.e581a9e4, 8080020250918152850.b0a6ceea, 0:4.12.2-14.el9_6.5, 0:4.9.8-11.el9_0.5, 0:4.10.1-12.el9_2.6, 0:4.11.0-15.el9_4.7

Timeline

Official Publish: September 30th, 2025
Last Modified: February 26th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-1220

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.