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Oracle Linux 9 : ipa (ELSA-2026-70564)

high Nessus Plugin ID 350078

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2026-70564 advisory.

 - RHEL-218866 CVE-2026-18147 ipa: FreeIPA/IdM: Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability allows arbitrary code execution via crafted URL [rhel-9.8.z]
 - RHEL-245474 CVE-2026-76578 ipa: FreeIPA: unauthenticated LDAP client can obtain administrator credentials via the self-managed-token ACI [rhel-9.8.z]
 - RHEL-248206 CVE-2026-79678 ipa: freeipa: idp-add eval() reachable before authorization check allows environment disclosure and denial of service [rhel-9.8.z]
 - RHEL-245627 CVE-2026-19550 ipa: FreeIPA: trust-fetch-domains uses trust-read ACI to gate a privileged AD trust refresh, allowing unauthorized LDAP writes [rhel-9.8.z]
 - RHEL-240898 CVE-2026-13097 ipa: Privilege escalation via krbCanonicalName manipulation due to realm- unaware uniqueness enforcement in FreeIPA LDAP datastore [rhel-9.8.z]
 - RHEL-240830 CVE-2026-11861 ipa: FreeIPA: Obtaining TGS with impersonating cname through trust relationships [rhel-9.8.z]
 - RHEL-240815 CVE-2026-73197 ipa: FreeIPA: Unauthenticated DoS in /ipa/migration/migration.py via Unbounded Request Body Read [rhel-9.8.z]
 - RHEL-240804 CVE-2026-73198 ipa: FreeIPA: Unauthenticated DoS in /ipa/i18n_messages via Unbounded Request Body Read [rhel-9.8.z]

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux 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.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2026-70564.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 350078

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2026-70564.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2026

Updated: 9/24/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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:oracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-client-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-client-encrypted-dns, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-client-epn, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-client-samba, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-client, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-selinux-luna, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-selinux-nfast, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-selinux, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-server-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-server-dns, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-server-encrypted-dns, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-server-trust-ad, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ipa-server, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-ipaclient, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-ipalib, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-ipaserver, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:python3-ipatests

Required KB Items: Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/local_checks_enabled

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