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CYBERELEVATED2h ago · Sep 8, 2026, 11:22 AM

FreeIPA Flaw Chain Lets Anonymous Clients Create Reusable Administrator Credentials

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A flaw in FreeIPA lets a client that has never logged in create a Kerberos identity of its own choosing in the directory and end up in the administrators group, Red Hat says. FreeIPA is the system that determines who may log in across a Linux domain and maintains all identities in a 389 Directory Server database accessed via LDAP. The attack needs a second flaw in that database software. The

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