It was found that a mock CMC authentication plugin with a hardcoded secret was accidentally enabled by default in the pki-core package before 10.6.4. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to bypass the regular authentication process and trick the CA server into issuing certificates.
Weakness
This weakness has been deprecated because it covered redundant concepts already described in CWE-287.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise_linux_desktop | Redhat | 7.0 (including) | 7.0 (including) |
| Enterprise_linux_server | Redhat | 7.0 (including) | 7.0 (including) |
| Enterprise_linux_workstation | Redhat | 7.0 (including) | 7.0 (including) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | RedHat | pki-core-0:10.4.1-11.el7 | * |
| Dogtag-pki | Ubuntu | artful | * |
| Dogtag-pki | Ubuntu | esm-apps/xenial | * |
| Dogtag-pki | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Dogtag-pki | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
| Dogtag-pki | Ubuntu | zesty | * |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2335
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7537
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/commit/876d13c6d20e7e1235b9
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2335
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7537
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/commit/876d13c6d20e7e1235b9