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CVE-2017-7537

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-07-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-592

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.

Affected products

• Dogtag PKI: before 10.6.4 — fixed in 10.6.4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Dogtag PKI 10.6.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2335
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7537
• https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/commit/876d13c6d20e7e1235b9
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2335
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7537
• https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/commit/876d13c6d20e7e1235b9

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