Security Resilience

CVE-2026-13097

Redhat Enterprise Linux 10.0 … 9.0

Published
20 August 2026
Modified
15 October 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 8.7
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0043 35th percentile
Risk Priority 56 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2026-13097 is a high-severity Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference (CWE-706) vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux. Its CVSS base score is 8.7 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 35th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A privilege escalation flaw was found in FreeIPA. The uniqueness constraint enforced on Kerberos principal name attributes in the 389-ds directory server does not properly account for equivalent representations of the same principal name, allowing a user with sufficient LDAP…

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write privileges to create a service principal that impersonates an existing privileged one. This can lead to unauthorized acquisition of Kerberos service tickets for sensitive services, potentially resulting in full domain compromise.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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Affected Assets

redhat
enterprise linux
10.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
freeipa
freeipa
4.12.2

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Access enforcement applies authorization checks to the resolved resource, blocking access outside the intended sphere.

Information flow enforcement can constrain flows that result from an incorrectly resolved name or reference.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

degrades

Network segmentation and routing policies reduce the chance that a mis-resolved name leads to an unintended external resource.

degrades

Segregated networks limit the blast radius when a name or reference resolves outside the intended control sphere.

blocks

Secure SDLC practices include design reviews that can catch incorrect name or reference handling before deployment.

blocks

A.8.26 only requires that security requirements (including those that could address name-resolution issues) be identified during development or acquisition; it does not itself enforce, implement, or stop exploitation of an incorrectly-resolved name or reference.

blocks

A.8.27 mandates security-by-design principles (least privilege, default-deny, distrust-external-input, security-oriented design reviews, hardening) that reach many but not all name-resolution mistakes; a bounded remainder (e.g. flawed resolution logic inside trusted components or libraries) can still be introduced and exploited.

prevents

Secure-coding standards directly address canonicalization, input validation and safe name resolution, mitigating CWE-706.

Hardening callouts derived

DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.

  • No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-706, a class-level weakness, and none of its children carries one either.

References