High severity · published Jul 26, 2018
CVE-2017-7537
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
7.5
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 73% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DO
Dogtagpki · Dogtagpki
before 10.6.4 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7537
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7537
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2335
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7537
Patch
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/commit/876d13c6d20e7e1235b9
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