Bug 1160871 (CVE-2014-7828)

Summary: CVE-2014-7828 freeipa: password not required when OTP in use
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: abokovoy, frenaud, ipa-maint, jrusnack, mkosek, pviktori, pvoborni, rcritten, ssorce, tscherf
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Description Vincent Danen 2014-11-05 20:48:02 UTC 
A flaw was reported [1] in FreeIPA 4.0/4.1 where users could log in using only the OTP value. This arose because ipapwd_authentication() successfully determined that an empty password was invalid, but 389 itself would see this as an anonymous bind.

This will be fixed in the next release [2].  As support for OTP is not available in earlier versions, only FreeIPA >= 4.0 is affected.

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4690
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-devel/2014-November/msg00068.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank FreeIPA upstream for reporting this issue.


Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of IPA as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, or 7 as they did not include support for OTP.