RockyLinux 9 : ipa (RLSA-2026:70564)

high Nessus Plugin ID 349902

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:70564 advisory.

* ipa: FreeIPA: Unauthenticated DoS in `/ipa/i18n_messages` via Unbounded Request Body Read (CVE-2026-73198)

* ipa: FreeIPA: Unauthenticated DoS in `/ipa/migration/migration.py` via Unbounded Request Body Read (CVE-2026-73197)

* FreeIPA: idm: ipa: FreeIPA: Obtaining TGS with impersonating cname through trust relationships (CVE-2026-11861)

* freeipa: ipa: FreeIPA/IdM: Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability allows arbitrary code execution via crafted URL (CVE-2026-18147)

* freeipa: ipa: FreeIPA: trust-fetch-domains uses trust-read ACI to gate a privileged AD trust refresh, allowing unauthorized LDAP writes (CVE-2026-19550)

* ipa: Privilege escalation via krbCanonicalName manipulation due to realm-unaware uniqueness enforcement in FreeIPA LDAP datastore (CVE-2026-13097)

* ipa: freeipa: FreeIPA: unauthenticated LDAP client can obtain administrator credentials via the self- managed-token ACI (CVE-2026-76578)

* freeIPA: idm: freeipa: idp-add eval() reachable before authorization check allows environment disclosure and denial of service (CVE-2026-79678)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

* [Cursor Automated] Include latest fixes in python3-ipatests package [Rocky Linux9.8] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-170987)

* WebUI Hardening [rhel-9.8.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-238511)

* ipa-otptoken-import hardening [rhel-9.8.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-238519)

* host-mod: handle the password attribute when set with --setattr userpassword= [rhel-9.8.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-238523)

* ipa env: support only simple * wildcard [rhel-9.8.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-238527)

* ipa-epn: drop_privileges method is mixing uid and gid [rhel-9.8.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-238674)

* ipa-migrate: require Replication Administrator privilege [rhel-9.8.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-238677)

* ipa-migrate tool is renaming host records & host info in automount information [rhel-9.8.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-240767)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 349902

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-70564.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/24/2026

Updated: 9/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

Percentile: 96.34

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-11861

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-client-common, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-client-encrypted-dns, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-client-epn, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-client-samba, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-client, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-common, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-selinux-luna, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-selinux-nfast, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-selinux, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-server-common, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-server-dns, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-server-encrypted-dns, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-server-trust-ad-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-server-trust-ad, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:ipa-server, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-ipaclient, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-ipalib, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-ipaserver, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-ipatests

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-11861, CVE-2026-13097, CVE-2026-18147, CVE-2026-19550, CVE-2026-73197, CVE-2026-73198, CVE-2026-76578, CVE-2026-79678

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