Red Hat FreeIPA Trust Administration trust-fetch-domains privileges management

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Red Hat FreeIPA. Affected by this issue is the function trust-fetch-domains of the component Trust Administration. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-19550. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat FreeIPA (the affected version unknown). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function trust-fetch-domains of the component Trust Administration. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in FreeIPA. The trust-fetch-domains command is gated by a read-only permission on the trust object rather than a trust-administration permission, allowing an authenticated, non-privileged IPA user to trigger a privileged Active Directory trust refresh using an attacker-supplied server and credentials, resulting in unauthorized, attacker-controlled modification of trusted-domain and ID-range identity data in the IPA LDAP directory.

The advisory is shared for download at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-19550 since 08/11/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 09/25/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 350078 (Oracle Linux 9 : ipa (ELSA-2026-70564)), 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 (350078), EUVD (EUVD-2026-56977) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-3552). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• RESF Rocky Linux
• Oracle Linux
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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• Directory Service Software

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• Red Hat

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• FreeIPA

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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