What is CVE-2015-5284?

CVE-2015-5284 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Freeipa, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-09-21.

How severe is CVE-2015-5284?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Freeipa

CVE-2015-5284

ipa-kra-install in FreeIPA before 4.2.2 puts the CA agent certificate and private key in /etc/httpd/alias/kra-agent.pem, which is world readable.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2017-09-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (61.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 61st percentile — 61.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Freeipa

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-interest/2015-October/msg00000.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi (Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
pagure.io/freeipa/issue/5347 (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-5284?: CVE-2015-5284 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Freeipa, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-09-21.
How severe is CVE-2015-5284?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.