High [CVE-2025-9615 +1] Networkmanager: networkmanager: 802-1x ca-path and phase2-ca-path bypass private_user restriction, allowing wpa-enterprise server validation bypass (incomplete fix for CVE-2025-9615)
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2025-9615 and CVE-2026-19685 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat package: networkmanager-adsl, Red Hat package: networkmanager-bluetooth.
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Summary
NetworkManager did not apply the private_user restriction to the 802-1x.ca-path and phase2-ca-path directory-valued connection properties.
This incomplete fix for CVE-2025-9615 allows an unprivileged local user to point a private WPA-Enterprise (802.1X) connection profile's CA path at an attacker-controlled directory, bypassing server certificate validation and enabling credential theft via a rogue access point.
This issue is limited to WPA-Enterprise (802.1X) network connections; open and WPA2-Personal (PSK) networks are not affected. Exploitation requires an unprivileged, active local user session holding the (commonly passwordless on desktop systems) settings.modify.own polkit permission; the flaw is not reachable from a remote or inactive SSH session.
NetworkManager is the sole affected component: wpa_supplicant/hostapd are downstream consumers that correctly use whatever ca_path directory they are handed and require no change. Red Hat severity: Important — CVSS 7.1 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N).
Weakness: CWE-863. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.
Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation checklist
- Upstream fix is public: NetworkManager rejects 802-1x.ca-path and 802-1x.phase2-ca-path on private connections (those with connection.permissions) and requires ca-cert or system-ca-certs instead. Fixed upstream in commit a8e87381 (MR 2513), shipped in NetworkManager 1.58.1 and later 1.60 development snapshots. Until the fixed package is installed, use system-wide 802.1X profiles rather than per-user private ones, or set 802-1x.system-ca-certs=yes so the compiled system CA path overrides any user-supplied ca-path.
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