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Fedora 41: FreeIPA Important CVE-2025-7493 Escalation Prevention Advisory

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Calendar Grey October 3, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update FreeIPA in Fedora 41 addresses CVE-2025-7493 to improve escalation prevention and maintain system integrity.
CVE-2025-7493: host to admin escalation prevention: https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-12-5.html Update FreeIPA to latest fixes from ipa-4-12 branch

Summary

IPA is an integrated solution to provide centrally managed Identity (users,

hosts, services), Authentication (SSO, 2FA), and Authorization

(host access control, SELinux user roles, services). The solution provides

features for further integration with Linux based clients (SUDO, automount)

and integration with Active Directory based infrastructures (Trusts).

Update Information:

CVE-2025-7493: host to admin escalation prevention: https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-12-5.html Update FreeIPA to latest fixes from ipa-4-12 branch

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue fedora important FreeIPA escalation prevention

Change Log

* Tue Sep 30 2025 Alexander Bokovoy - 4.12.5-3 - Do not provide encrypted DNS features in Fedora 41, it is not supported * Tue Sep 30 2025 Alexander Bokovoy - 4.12.5-2 - Update minor version metadata to alow IPA data upgrade * Tue Sep 30 2025 Alexander Bokovoy - 4.12.5-1 - CVE-2025-7493: host to admin escalation prevention * Tue Sep 23 2025 Alexander Bokovoy - 4.12.2-15 - Update fixes from ipa-4-12 branch

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-1a3968c333 2025-10-03 01:16:27.010944+00:00 Name : freeipa Product : Fedora 41 Version : 4.12.5 Release : 2.1.fc41 URL : http://www.freeipa.org/ Summary : The Identity, Policy and Audit system Description : IPA is an integrated solution to provide centrally managed Identity (users, hosts, services), Authentication (SSO, 2FA), and Authorization (host access control, SELinux user roles, services). The solution provides features for further integration with Linux based clients (SUDO, automount) and integration with Active Directory based infrastructures (Trusts).

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-1a3968c333' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: freeipa
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 4.12.5
Release: 2.1.fc41
URL: http://www.freeipa.org/
Summary: The Identity, Policy and Audit system

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue fedora important FreeIPA escalation prevention

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