Fedora 43: freeipa Critical Update CVE-2025-7493 for Escalation Prevention
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October 3, 2025
CVE-2025-7493: host to admin escalation prevention: https://www.freeipa.org/release-notes/4-12-5.html Rebuild for Python 3.14.0rc3 Update FreeIPA to latest fixes from ipa-4-12 bran...
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 Rebuild for Python 3.14.0rc3 Update FreeIPA to latest fixes from ipa-4-12 branch
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Tue Sep 30 2025 Alexander Bokovoy
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2396699 - freeipa: Please rebuild in Fedora 43
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2396699
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-54a485ee85' 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 43
Version: 4.12.5
Release: 2.fc43
Summary: The Identity, Policy and Audit system
Topics Covered
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