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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5455 (CVE-2023-5455)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-01-10 13:15 – Updated: 2026-05-20 15:02 – Source website
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Details

A Cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in ipa/session/login_password in all supported versions of IPA. This flaw allows an attacker to trick the user into submitting a request that could perform actions as the user, resulting in a loss of confidentiality and system integrity. During community penetration testing it was found that for certain HTTP end-points FreeIPA does not ensure CSRF protection. Due to implementation details one cannot use this flaw for reflection of a cookie representing already logged-in user. An attacker would always have to go through a new authentication attempt.


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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "A Cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in ipa/session/login_password in all supported versions of IPA. This flaw allows an attacker to trick the user into submitting a request that could perform actions as the user, resulting in a loss of confidentiality and system integrity. During community penetration testing it was found that for certain HTTP end-points FreeIPA does not ensure CSRF protection. Due to implementation details one cannot use this flaw for reflection of a cookie representing already logged-in user. An attacker would always have to go through a new authentication attempt.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5455",
  "modified": "2026-05-20T15:02:15Z",
  "published": "2024-01-10T13:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-5455"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5455"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242828"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-10-3.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-11-1.html"
    },
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-6-10.html"
    },
    {
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      "url": "https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-9-14.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5455"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2023-5455"
  ]
}



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