Ipa up to 4.6.6/4.7.3/4.8.2 Batch Processing Password information disclosure

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Ipa up to 4.6.6/4.7.3/4.8.2 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Batch Processing. Such manipulation leads to information disclosure (Password). This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-10195. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Ipa up to 4.6.6/4.7.3/4.8.2 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Batch Processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Password). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in IPA, all 4.6.x versions before 4.6.7, all 4.7.x versions before 4.7.4 and all 4.8.x versions before 4.8.3, in the way that FreeIPA's batch processing API logged operations. This included passing user passwords in clear text on FreeIPA masters. Batch processing of commands with passwords as arguments or options is not performed by default in FreeIPA but is possible by third-party components. An attacker having access to system logs on FreeIPA masters could use this flaw to produce log file content with passwords exposed.

The weakness was shared 11/27/2019 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-10195 since 03/27/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 208558 (CentOS 7 : ipa (RHSA-2020:0378)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 4.6.7, 4.7.4 or 4.8.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (208558). The entry VDB-146445 is related to this item. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Ipa

Version

• 4.6.0
• 4.6.1
• 4.6.2
• 4.6.3
• 4.6.4
• 4.6.5
• 4.6.6
• 4.7.0
• 4.7.1
• 4.7.2
• 4.7.3
• 4.8.0
• 4.8.1
• 4.8.2

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