RHEL 9 : ipa (RHSA-2025:17087)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 266329

Language:

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-2025:17087 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-2025-7493)

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-2025:17087.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 266329

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-17087.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/1/2025

Updated: 10/1/2025

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: 8.1

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-2025-7493

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: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.2, 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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-ipalib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-client-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ipa-client-samba, 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: 9/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/30/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-7493

CWE: 1220

RHSA: 2025:17087

Detections

Analytics