Bug 2514054 - CVE-2026-19550 freeipa: FreeIPA: trust-fetch-domains uses trust-read ACI to gate a privileged AD trust refresh, allowing unauthorized LDAP writes [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-19550 freeipa: FreeIPA: trust-fetch-domains uses trust-read ACI to g...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: freeipa
Version: 45
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: IPA Maintainers
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["4f3bf602-9454-4cf5-8908-e...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-19550
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Reported: 2026-08-11 16:06 UTC by mkaminsk
Modified: 2026-08-25 01:02 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: freeipa-4.13.3-1.1.fc44
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Last Closed: 2026-08-25 01:02:36 UTC
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Description mkaminsk 2026-08-11 16:06:16 UTC
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.

A flaw was found in FreeIPA. The `trust-fetch-domains` command, used to refresh Active Directory trust topology, is gated only by the read-level ACI on the trust object (`System: Read Trust Information`, granted to any authenticated IPA user by default) rather than a trust-administration-level permission. Any authenticated, non-privileged IPA user can therefore invoke `ipa trust-fetch-domains`, which calls a root-owned oddjobd/D-Bus helper (`install/oddjob/com.redhat.idm.trust-fetch-domains.in`). When the caller supplies `--admin`/`--password`, the helper calls `kinit_password()` against a caller-chosen `--server` using attacker-supplied credentials, with no cross-check that they belong to the real trusted AD forest, then accepts whatever forest-trust topology (domain names, NetBIOS names, SIDs) that attacker-controlled server returns via `ipaserver/dcerpc.py`'s `fetch_domains()`/`discover_trust_instance()`. This fabricated data is written directly into the IPA LDAP directory as authoritative trust/ID-range topology by `trust.add_new_domains_from_trust()`. The authorization gap itself (an unprivileged, non-admin user's request reaching the root-owned helper's execution with no ACI rejection) was reproduced dynamically in an isolated sandbox against ipa-server-4.13.5, confirmed against a negative control (an unrelated admin-only operation was correctly rejected in the same session). The exploiting principal holds zero delegated privilege — this is not a case of a narrow administrative delegation being used beyond its intended scope.

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 15:52:16 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-08-20 11:21:45 UTC
FEDORA-2026-903d904933 (freeipa-4.13.3-1.fc44 and samba-4.24.6-1.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-903d904933

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-08-21 05:41:00 UTC
FEDORA-2026-903d904933 has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-903d904933`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-903d904933

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-08-21 09:48:44 UTC
FEDORA-2026-3a48220f1f (freeipa-4.13.3-1.1.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-3a48220f1f

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-08-22 01:39:30 UTC
FEDORA-2026-903d904933 has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-903d904933`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-903d904933

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-08-22 02:21:07 UTC
FEDORA-2026-3a48220f1f has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-3a48220f1f`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-3a48220f1f

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2026-08-25 01:02:36 UTC
FEDORA-2026-903d904933 (freeipa-4.13.3-1.1.fc44 and samba-4.24.6-1.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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