SCA: security update for freeipa, ipa (GHSA-w4q7-f34x-vpgc)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433447

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2019-10195)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w4q7-f34x-vpgc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433447

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10195

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/26/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10195

cwe: CWE-200