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Source: freeipa · Limited verification•Last verified: •Collection Running
CVE-2026-11861Unknown / EvaluatingCRITICAL (raw)CVSS 9.6CWE-266

A flaw was found in FreeIPA

Published: 20 Aug 2026•Last updated: 15 Oct 2026, 11:47 AM IST•Source identifier: secalert@redhat.com
Dossier completeness: source-provided sections 2 / 3 · rule guidance not available. Missing source facts count as incomplete.
Official source
CISA KEV catalog
Unknown
KEV status was not determined.
CVSS score
9.6CRITICAL (raw)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Metric sourcesecalert@redhat.com
EPSS probability
0.4%0.004
Percentile27th
Weakness type
CWE-266
No further CWE recorded
Remediation
Patch status unknown
No fixed version or KB recorded

Why It Matters

Analysis dossier

Why It Matters

A flaw was found in FreeIPA. When a trust relationship is configured between FreeIPA and Active Directory, Active Directory users can bypass authentication for FreeIPA services, including the portal, SMB server, and LDAP directory. This is possible by impersonating a client name in the Ticket Granting Service (TGS) due to FreeIPA services not verifying Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) certificates. This vulnerability could allow an authenticated Active Directory user to escalate their privileges within the FreeIPA domain.

SOC priority

High Severity / Review

Actively exploited

Unknown

Publicly disclosed

Unknown

Risk basis: Microsoft or Microsoft-managed product relevance; CRITICAL severity; Critical CVSS without confirmed KEV exploitation

Affected Products & Remediation

2 source-backed products
Affected products and versions (source)
  • freeipa freeipa · < 4.13.3 · NVD CPE · Source
  • redhat enterprise linux · 7.0; 8.0; 9.0; 10.0 · NVD CPE · Source
Recorded patch / KBNot provided by source

Vendor or catalog guidance (source)

Not provided by source

Known exploitation (source facts)

Only what a source states. Unknown means no source has said either way; it is not "not exploited".

CISA KEV
Unknown
Exploited (source statement)
Unknown
Publicly disclosed (source)
Unknown

Suggested hunting (rule-based inference)

SecOps Signal recommendation (rule-based inference). These steps are hunting hypotheses from the vulnerability class; they do not state or imply that exploitation occurred here or anywhere.

No rule-based guidance for this vulnerability class

CISA KEV Record

CISA KEV status was not determined for this record.

Change History & Source Data

— No recorded material change

CNA / source
secalert@redhat.com
Record status · verification
UPDATED · NVD API
CPE
cpe:2.3:a:freeipa:freeipa:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Evidence & Provenance

3 public sources
access.redhat.comSource recordnvd.nist.govSource recordaccess.redhat.comSource record

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Detection Hunting Query
Target: DeviceTvmSoftwareVulnerabilities•Defender XDR
Detect endpoints exposed to CVE-2026-11861
Purpose: Exposure assessment (Category: Exposure Check)Why linked: Query metadata names CVE-2026-11861
DeviceTvmSoftwareVulnerabilities| where CveId == "CVE-2026-11861"| project DeviceId, DeviceName, OSPlatform, OSVersion, SoftwareVendor, SoftwareName, SoftwareVersion, CveId, VulnerabilitySeverityLevel, RecommendedSecurityUpdate, RecommendedSecurityUpdateId| sort by VulnerabilitySeverityLevel desc
Schema Checked · Not runtime validatedSource: SecOps Signal deterministic template · Limited verificationStatic screening: Passed structure and schema checks; tenant execution is not verified.
Open KQL Library

Correlated briefings

— No published briefing references this CVE

SecOps Signal surfaces public advisory facts only. A missing value means the source has not published it, not that your environment is unaffected. No tenant inventory is connected.