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CVE-2025-4404 is a privilege-escalation vulnerability in FreeIPA caused by failure to validate the uniqueness of the krbCanonicalName attribute for the administrative Kerberos principal. A user able to create a service can create one with the same canonical name as admin@REALM, then obtain a Kerberos ticket for that service containing the administrative credential. The ticket can be used to perform administrative operations in the FreeIPA realm.
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8 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
A vulnerability referenced by an AlmaLinux 9.2 local security-check plugin; no technical flaw details are provided.
A related earlier FreeIPA privilege escalation vulnerability involving admin@REALM that was patched, but whose fix did not cover root@REALM and therefore left the separate CVE-2025-7493 issue unresolved.
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Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
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