Vulnerability CVE-2021-20179
Published: 2021-03-15

Description:
A flaw was found in pki-core. An attacker who has successfully compromised a key could use this flaw to renew the corresponding certificate over and over again, as long as it is not explicitly revoked. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.

Type:

CWE-863

 (Incorrect Authorization)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.5/10
4.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Redhat -> Certificate system 
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
Dogtagpki -> Dogtagpki 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914379
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3474
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3475
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3476
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3477
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3478
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DDOLFOLEIV7I4EUC3SCZBXL6E2ER7ZEN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HRE44N6P24AEDKRMWK7RPRLMCUUBRJII/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R3I7BRAHLE2WWSY76W3CKFCF5WSSAE24/
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