# CVE-2026-14612: Freeipa: ipa: idm: freeipa: off-by-one buffer overflows in ipa-otpd oauth2.c during oauth2 device authorization

- Severity: CVSS 4.2 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-03 · Updated: 2026-07-07

## Affected

- ipa: version range not reported
- ipa: version range not reported
- ipa: version range not reported
- idm:client/ipa: version range not reported
- idm:DL1/ipa: version range not reported
- ipa: version range not reported

## Description

Two off-by-one errors in the FreeIPA ipa-otpd daemon's OAuth2 device authorization handler can cause out-of-bounds memory access when processing an oversized response from a configured external OAuth2/OIDC Identity Provider. An attacker who controls or can man-in-the-middle the IdP endpoint may be able to trigger ipa-otpd to write or read one byte past the end of a fixed-size buffer. Exploitation requires FreeIPA to be configured with an external IdP, attacker control or MITM of that IdP, and a user to initiate the OAuth2 device authorization flow. The most likely impact is limited denial of service affecting the ipa-otpd daemon.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ipa, idm:client/ipa, idm:DL1/ipa, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-14612
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2496879

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