CVE-2019-14867
Code injection in FreeIPA
8.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 3.4%
Description
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 the internal function ber_scanf() was used in some components of the IPA server, which parsed kerberos key data. An unauthenticated attacker who could trigger parsing of the krb principal key could cause the IPA server to crash or in some conditions, cause arbitrary code to be executed on the server hosting the IPA server.
How to fix CVE-2019-14867
To remediate CVE-2019-14867, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 4.8.3-1 or later
- —upgrade to 4.6.7 or later
- —upgrade to 4.6.7 or later
- —upgrade to 4.6.7 or later
Is CVE-2019-14867 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 3.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 4.8.3-1
- >= 4.6.2, < 4.6.7
- >= 4.6.2, < 4.6.7
- >= 4.6.2, < 4.6.7, >= 4.7.0, < 4.7.4, >= 4.8.0, < 4.8.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |