Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3698  

A security issue was found in Cockpit in the way it handles the certificate verification performed by the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). This flaw allows client certificates to authenticate successfully, regardless of the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) configuration or the certificate status.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Certificate verification bypass

Description

A security issue was found in Cockpit in the way it handles the certificate verification performed by the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD). This flaw allows client certificates to authenticate successfully, regardless of the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) configuration or the certificate status.

AVG-1393 cockpit 251-1 Medium Vulnerable

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1992149
https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/cert-authentication.html
https://github.com/SSSD/sssd/issues/5224