Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 FreeIPA API Audit information expsure

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Enterprise Linux 8 and Enterprise Linux 9. This impacts an unknown function of the component FreeIPA API Audit. Such manipulation leads to information expsure. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-11029. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Enterprise Linux 8 and Enterprise Linux 9 (the affected version unknown) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component FreeIPA API Audit. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information expsure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-497. The product does not properly prevent sensitive system-level information from being accessed by unauthorized actors who do not have the same level of access to the underlying system as the product does. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in the FreeIPA API audit, where it sends the whole FreeIPA command line to journalctl. As a consequence, during the FreeIPA installation process, it inadvertently leaks the administrative user credentials, including the administrator password, to the journal database. In the worst-case scenario, where the journal log is centralized, users with access to it can have improper access to the FreeIPA administrator credentials.

The advisory is available at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-11029 since 11/08/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/05/2025). This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 214230 (RHEL 9 : ipa (RHSA-2025:0334)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (214230) and EUVD (EUVD-2024-34378). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Operating System

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• Red Hat

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• Enterprise Linux 7
• Enterprise Linux 8
• Enterprise Linux 9

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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