A privilege escalation flaw was found in FreeIPA. The uniqueness constraint enforced on Kerberos principal name attributes in the 389-ds directory server does not properly account for equivalent representations of the same principal name, allowing a user with sufficient LDAP write privileges to create a service principal that impersonates an existing privileged one. This can lead to unauthorized acquisition of Kerberos service tickets for sensitive services, potentially resulting in full domain compromise.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-13097 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2515974 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 3
- References+1 references (now 11)NVD modified 2026-10-26 14:16
- References+2 references (now 10)NVD modified 2026-10-15 06:17
- First seenCVSS 8.7 · redhat, freeipaNVD modified 2026-10-14 23:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 5
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:freeipa:freeipa:4.12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 11
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70564
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72279
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82935
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83083
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83084
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83085
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83460
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83461
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:89836
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-13097 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2515974 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory