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CVE-2012-5631 json

ipa 3.0 does not properly check server identity before sending credential containing cookies

published 2019-11-25 6 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-5516

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ipa 3.0 does not properly check server identity before sending credential containing cookies

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-5631 updated cvss 4.3

ipa: client does not properly check server identity before sending cookies that contain credentials

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ipa-client Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ipa, ipa-client, ipa-python, ipa-server, ipa-admintools, ipa-server-selinux, +1 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • ipa ipa

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-565 Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.