CVE-2021-20179
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-15 12:01
Modified
2024-08-03 17:30
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914379Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3474Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3475Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3476Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3477Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3478Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DDOLFOLEIV7I4EUC3SCZBXL6E2ER7ZEN/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HRE44N6P24AEDKRMWK7RPRLMCUUBRJII/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R3I7BRAHLE2WWSY76W3CKFCF5WSSAE24/
Impacted products
n/apki-core
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