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CVE-2012-5484 (GCVE-0-2012-5484)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-01-27 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:05
VLAI
Summary
The client in FreeIPA 2.x and 3.x before 3.1.2 does not properly obtain the Certification Authority (CA) certificate from the server, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a join procedure via a crafted certificate.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-11-12 00:00
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