Bug 1914379 (CVE-2021-20179) - CVE-2021-20179 pki-core: Unprivileged users can renew any certificate
Summary: CVE-2021-20179 pki-core: Unprivileged users can renew any certificate
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-20179
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1914387 1914394 1914395 1914396 1916327 1916376 1916377 1934282 1934283 1938207
Blocks: 1914363 1938322
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-01-08 17:08 UTC by Cedric Buissart
Modified: 2021-08-17 20:11 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pki-core 10.5, pki-core 10.8, pki-core 10.9, pki-core 10.10, pki-core 10.11
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Last Closed: 2021-03-15 17:25:51 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:0819 0 None None None 2021-03-15 13:26:12 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:0851 0 None None None 2021-03-16 13:48:22 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:0966 0 None None None 2021-03-23 10:55:04 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:0975 0 None None None 2021-03-23 16:46:59 UTC

Description Cedric Buissart 2021-01-08 17:08:03 UTC 
It was found that an unprivileged user can renew a certificate.

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.

References:

https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3478 
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3477 
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3476 
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3475 
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3474
Comment 6 Cedric Buissart 2021-01-11 17:54:52 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Fraser Tweedale, Geetika Kapoor
Comment 14 Cedric Buissart 2021-03-12 13:23:27 UTC 
Created pki-core tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1938207]
Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-15 13:26:09 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2021:0819 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0819
Comment 17 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-03-15 17:25:51 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-20179
Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-16 13:48:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2021:0851 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0851
Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-23 10:54:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:0966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0966
Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-23 16:46:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2021:0975 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0975
Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2021-04-20 09:49:29 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2021:1263 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1263
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