CVE-2014-7850

freeipa: XSS flaw can be used to escalate privileges

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.9

CVSS 2.0

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Published · November 19, 2014

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Web UI in FreeIPA 4.x before 4.1.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to breadcrumb navigation.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of IPA as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or 7 as they do not include the vulerable Web UI code.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.9
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')