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FreeIPA Flaw Chain Lets Anonymous Clients Create Reusable Administrator Credentials

lowthehackernewsPublished 2026-09-08

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.

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Original source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/freeipa-flaw-chain-lets-anonymous.html