CVE-2015-5179

high

Published 2017-09-20 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

FreeIPA might display user data improperly via vectors involving non-printable characters.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Debian Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Affected	—
sid	Affected	—
bookworm	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
freeipa	freeipa	`{"endIncluding":"4.5.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.