Moderate: pki-core security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: pki-core security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for pki-core is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Core contains fundamental packages required by Red Hat Certificate System.

Security Fix(es):

• pki-core: Mishandled ACL configuration in AAclAuthz.java reverses rules that allow and deny access (CVE-2018-1080)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

This issue was discovered by Fraser Tweedale (Red Hat).

Bug Fix(es):

• Previously, when ECC keys were enrolled, Certificate Management over CMS (CMC) authentication failed with a "TokenException: Unable to insert certificate into temporary database" error. As a consequence, the enrollment failed. This update fixes the problem. As a result, the mentioned bug no longer occurs. (BZ#1550581)
  
• Previously, Certificate System used the same enrollment profiles for issuing RSA and ECC certificates. As a consequence, the key usage extension in issued certificates did not meet the Common Criteria standard. This update adds ECC-specific enrollment profiles where the key usage extension for TLS server and client certificates are different as described in RFC 6960. Additionally, the update changes existing profiles to issue only RSA certificates. As a result, the key usage extension in ECC certificates now meets the Common Criteria standard. (BZ#1554726)
  
• The Certificate System server rejects saving invalid access control lists (ACL). As a consequence, when saving an ACL with an empty expression, the server rejected the update and the pkiconsole utility displayed an StringIndexOutOfBoundsException error. With this update, the utility rejects empty ACL expressions. As a result, invalid ACLs cannot be saved and the error is no longer displayed. (BZ#1557883)
  
• Previously, due to a bug in the Certificate System installation procedure, installing a Key Recovery Authority (KRA) with ECC keys failed. To fix the problem, the installation process has been updated to handle both RSA and ECC subsystems automatically. As a result, installing subsystems with ECC keys no longer fail. (BZ#1581134)
  
• Previously, during verification, Certificate System encoded the ECC public key incorrectly in CMC Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF) requests. As a consequence, requesting an ECC certificate with Certificate Management over CMS (CMC) in CRMF failed. The problem has been fixed, and as a result, CMC CRMF requests using ECC keys work as expected. (BZ#1585945)
  

Enhancement(s):

• The pkispawn man page has been updated and now describes the --skip-configuration and --skip-installation parameters. (BZ#1551067)
  
• With this update, Certificate System adds the Subject Alternative Name (SAN) extension by default to server certificates and sets it to the Common Name (CN) of the certificate. (BZ#1581135)
  
• With this enhancement, users can create Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF) requests without the key archival option when using the CRMFPopClient utility. This feature increases flexibility because a Key Recovery Authority (KRA) certificate is no longer required. Previously, if the user did not pass the "-b transport_certificate_file" option to CRMFPopClient, the utility automatically used the KRA transport certificate stored in the transport.txt file. With this update, if "-b transport_certificate_file" is not specified, Certificate System creates a request without using key archival. (BZ#1588945)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1550581 - CMCAuth throws org.mozilla.jss.crypto.TokenException: Unable to insert certificate into temporary database [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1551067 - [MAN] Add --skip-configuration and --skip-installation into pkispawn man page. [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1552241 - Make sslget aware of TLSv1_2 ciphers [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1554726 - Need ECC-specific Enrollment Profiles for standard conformance [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1554727 - Permit additional FIPS ciphers to be enabled by default for RSA . . . [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1556657 - CVE-2018-1080 pki-core: Mishandled ACL configuration in AAclAuthz.java reverses rules that allow and deny access
• BZ - 1557880 - [MAN] Missing Man pages for tools CMCRequest, CMCResponse, CMCSharedToken [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1557883 - Console: Adding ACL from pki-console gives StringIndexOutOfBoundsException (RHEL) [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1558919 - Not able to generate certificate request with ECC using pki client-cert-request [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1571582 - [MAN] Missing Man pages for tools CMCRequest, CMCResponse, CMCSharedToken (typos) [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1572548 - IPA install with external-CA is failing when FIPS mode enabled. [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1581134 - ECC installation for non CA subsystems needs improvement [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1581135 - SAN in internal SSL server certificate in pkispawn configuration step [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1585945 - CMC CRMF requests result in InvalidKeyFormatException when signing algorithm is ECC [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1587826 - ExternalCA: Installation failed during csr generation with ecc [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1588944 - Cert validation for installation with external CA cert [rhel-7.5.z]
• BZ - 1588945 - CRMFPopClient tool - should allow option to do no key archival [rhel-7.5.z]

CVEs

• CVE-2018-1080

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate