Bug 2263012

Summary:	TRIAGE CVE-2024-1271 freeipa: privileges escalation from root to domain admin [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component:	freeipa	Assignee:	IPA Maintainers <ipa-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	39	CC:	abokovoy, ftrivino, ipa-maint, mhjacks, pvoborni, rcritten, ssorce, twoerner
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Last Closed:	2024-02-06 16:00:39 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	2262978

Description Marian Rehak 2024-02-06 15:13:01 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2262978

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2024-02-06 15:13:05 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=medium

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2262978,2263012

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Alexander Bokovoy 2024-02-06 16:00:39 UTC

FreeIPA team does not consider this as a security issue. Root account on IPA server does not require admin credentials to manipulate the environment. If root privileges were obtained somehow, the game is over. Thus, administrators should protect their environments seriously. However, once you are root, it does not matter whether you have admin credentials or not. Root can modify *anything*, this has nothing to do with FreeIPA.