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RHEL 9 : ipa (RHSA-2025:9185)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 240142
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for ipa.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:9185 advisory.Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) is a centralized authentication, identity management, and authorization solution for both traditional and cloud-based enterprise environments.
Security Fix(es):
* freeIPA: idm: Privilege escalation from host to domain admin in FreeIPA (CVE-2025-4404)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the RHEL ipa package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:9185.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2364606
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 240142
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-9185.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 6/17/2025
Updated: 6/17/2025
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.3
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Important
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.3
Temporal Score: 6.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4404
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.1
Temporal Score: 7.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-server-trust-ad, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-ipaclient, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.0, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-client-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-client-samba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-ipalib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-client-epn, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-server-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-ipaserver, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-selinux, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-server-dns
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/17/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2025
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2025-4404