CVE-2016-5414

FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5414 describes a vulnerability in FreeIPA 4.4.0 that allows remote attackers to request arbitrary Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries for services. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a network attack vector and low attack complexity, potentially leading to high integrity impact without requiring user interaction. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		4.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:freeipa:freeipa:4.4.0:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.03%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

60.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-25

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0103 is in the 37th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference

View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-5414Moderate

freeipa: incorrect check for SubjectAltNames during CA ACL check

Aug 31, 2016

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / attachment.cgi

Issue Tracking

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi

Issue TrackingPatch