CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7537

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-07-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-07-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-592, CWE-798

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0 • dogtagpki dogtagpki (< 10.6.4)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness

References