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CVE-2021-20179

Date: March 15, 2021

A flaw was found in pki-core. An attacker who has successfully compromised a key could use this flaw to renew the corresponding certificate over and over again, as long as it is not explicitly revoked. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.

Language: Java

Severity Score

Related Resources (17)

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R3I7BRAHLE2WWSY76W3CKFCF5WSSAE24/
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-20179
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20179
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3474
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914379
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3475
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20179
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R3I7BRAHLE2WWSY76W3CKFCF5WSSAE24/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HRE44N6P24AEDKRMWK7RPRLMCUUBRJII/
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-20179
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DDOLFOLEIV7I4EUC3SCZBXL6E2ER7ZEN/
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3476
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3477
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HRE44N6P24AEDKRMWK7RPRLMCUUBRJII/
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3478
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DDOLFOLEIV7I4EUC3SCZBXL6E2ER7ZEN/
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-20179

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Incorrect Authorization

CWE-863

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): SINGLE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): NONE
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