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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2023-5455: Security patch for ipa (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
Jan 10, 2024
Added
Feb 21, 2024
Modified
May 20, 2026

Description

A Cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in ipa/session/login_password in all supported versions of IPA. This flaw allows an attacker to trick the user into submitting a request that could perform actions as the user, resulting in a loss of confidentiality and system integrity. During community penetration testing it was found that for certain HTTP end-points FreeIPA does not ensure CSRF protection. Due to implementation details one cannot use this flaw for reflection of a cookie representing already logged-in user. An attacker would always have to go through a new authentication attempt.

Solutions

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ipa-clientamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ipa-client-commonamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ipa-commonamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ipa-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ipa-python-compatamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ipa-serveramazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ipa-server-commonamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ipa-server-dnsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ipa-server-trust-adamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python2-ipaclientamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python2-ipalibamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python2-ipaserver
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