CVE-2025-4404criticalCWE-1220

Freeipa: idm: privilege escalation from host to domain admin in freeipa

48Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendcvss 9.1epss 1.9%

from disclosure to weapon53 days

Published on NVDJun 17

1st PoC+53d

exploitation probability

1.9%top 22% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

A privilege escalation from host to domain vulnerability was found in the FreeIPA project. The FreeIPA package fails to validate the uniqueness of the `krbCanonicalName` for the admin account by default, allowing users to create services with the same canonical name as the REALM admin. When a successful attack happens, the user can retrieve a Kerberos ticket in the name of this service, containing the admin@REALM credential. This flaw allows an attacker to perform administrative tasks over the REALM, leading to access to sensitive data and sensitive data exfiltration.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

public PoCs found — 1

githubgithub.com/Im10n/CVE-2025-4404-POC★ 6

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