CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-1886

Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Published: Jan 24, 2014 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
7.5 IMPORTANT
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Format string vulnerability in the token processing system (pki-tps) in Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) 8.1 and possibly Dogtag Certificate System 9 and 10 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in unspecified vectors, related to viewing certificates.

Weakness

The product uses a function that accepts a format string as an argument, but the format string originates from an external source.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Certificate_system Redhat 8.1 (including) 8.1 (including)
Dogtag_certificate_system Redhat 9.0 (including) 9.0 (including)
Dogtag_certificate_system Redhat 10.0 (including) 10.0 (including)
Red Hat Certificate System 8 RedHat pki-tps-0:8.1.3-5.el5pki *

Potential Mitigations

References