7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-7537

Published: 26/07/2018 Updated: 12/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

It was found that a mock CMC authentication plugin with a hardcoded secret was accidentally enabled by default in the pki-core package prior to 10.6.4. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to bypass the regular authentication process and trick the CA server into issuing certificates.

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Synopsis Moderate: pki-core security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for pki-core is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, ...
Debian Bug report logs - #869261 CVE-2017-7537 Package: src:dogtag-pki; Maintainer for src:dogtag-pki is Debian FreeIPA Team <pkg-freeipa-devel@alioth-listsdebiannet>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 06:45:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security Found in version dogtag-pki/03 ...
It was found that a mock CMC authentication plugin with a hardcoded secret was accidentally enabled by default in the pki-core package An attacker could potentially use this flaw to bypass the regular authentication process and trick the CA server into issuing certificates ...