Freeipa Freeipa
CVE-2026-11861
A flaw was found in FreeIPA. When a trust relationship is configured between FreeIPA and Active Directory, Active Directory users can bypass authentication for FreeIPA services, including the portal, SMB server, and LDAP directory. This is possible by impersonating a client name in the Ticket Granting Service (TGS) due to FreeIPA services not verifying Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) certificates. This vulnerability could allow an authenticated Active Directory user to escalate their privileges within the FreeIPA domain.
What this means for your business
- It affects Freeipa. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.2% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 8% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Freeipa, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
- 2If you do, apply the vendor's fix. A patch or vendor advisory has been published.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 9.6 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N- Weakness
- CWE-266
- Assigned by
- secalert@redhat.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-08-20
- Last modified
- 2026-08-24
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Freeipa Freeipa- 4.13.3
- Redhat Enterprise Linux7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.