A privilege escalation flaw from host to domain administrator was found in FreeIPA. This vulnerability is similar to CVE-2025-4404, where it fails to validate the uniqueness of the krbCanonicalName. While the previously released version added validations for the admin@REALM credential, FreeIPA still does not validate the root@REALM canonical name, which can also be used as the realm administrator's name. This flaw allows an attacker to perform administrative tasks over the REALM, leading to access to sensitive data and sensitive data exfiltration.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-31739 A privilege escalation flaw from host to domain administrator was found in FreeIPA. This vulnerability is similar to CVE-2025-4404, where it fails to validate the uniqueness of the krbCanonicalName. While the previously released version added validations for the admin@REALM credential, FreeIPA still does not validate the root@REALM canonical name, which can also be used as the realm administrator's name. This flaw allows an attacker to perform administrative tasks over the REALM, leading to access to sensitive data and sensitive data exfiltration.
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

There's no available mitigation other than updating to the package version.

History

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:30:00 +0900

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References

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:00:00 +0900

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First Time appeared Redhat rhel Aus
Redhat rhel Els
Redhat rhel Eus Long Life
Redhat rhel Tus
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.2::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.4::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_aus:8.6::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.6::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:8.8::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus_long_life:8.4::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.6::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_tus:8.8::appstream
cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7
Vendors & Products Redhat rhel Aus
Redhat rhel Els
Redhat rhel Eus Long Life
Redhat rhel Tus
References

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:15:00 +0900

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:rhivos:1
Vendors & Products Redhat rhivos

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:45:00 +0900

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
References

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:30:00 +0900

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat rhivos
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:rhivos:1
Vendors & Products Redhat rhivos

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:15:00 +0900

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.0
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.2
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Important


Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:15:00 +0900

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.2::appstream
References

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:15:00 +0900

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat rhel Eus
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4::appstream
cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.4::crb
Vendors & Products Redhat rhel Eus
References

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:00:00 +0900

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0
References

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 01:45:00 +0900

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat rhel E4s
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.0::appstream
Vendors & Products Redhat rhel E4s
References

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 01:15:00 +0900

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:15:00 +0900

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Description A privilege escalation flaw from host to domain administrator was found in FreeIPA. This vulnerability is similar to CVE-2025-4404, where it fails to validate the uniqueness of the krbCanonicalName. While the previously released version added validations for the admin@REALM credential, FreeIPA still does not validate the root@REALM canonical name, which can also be used as the realm administrator's name. This flaw allows an attacker to perform administrative tasks over the REALM, leading to access to sensitive data and sensitive data exfiltration.
Title Freeipa: idm: privilege escalation from host to domain admin in freeipa
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Weaknesses CWE-1220
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-06T21:10:49.216Z

Reserved: 2025-07-11T14:20:32.459Z

Link: CVE-2025-7493

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-04T21:14:56.918Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-09-30T15:15:58.243

Modified: 2025-11-04T22:16:44.030

Link: CVE-2025-7493

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2025-09-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-7493 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses