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CVE-2026-17039: Pki-core: dogtag-pki: redhat-pki: pki-core: ca renewal request processing omits realm authorization check performed by enrollment path

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-07-24 · updated 2026-07-25
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

A flaw was found in pki-core. The certificate authority (CA) renewal request path does not perform the realm-based authorization check that the enrollment path performs, allowing an authenticated user entitled to one realm to cause a certificate belonging to a different realm to be renewed without that realm's authorization.

Affected products

• Red Hat Certificate System 10: all versions
• Red Hat Certificate System 11: all versions
• Red Hat Certificate System 9: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: all versions
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: all versions

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20179
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-17039
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2506720
• https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/blob/master/base/ca/database/ds/acl.ldif
• https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/blob/master/base/ca/src/main/java/com/netscape/cms/servlet/cert/EnrollmentProcessor.java
• https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/blob/master/base/ca/src/main/java/com/netscape/cms/servlet/cert/RenewalProcessor.java
• https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/blob/master/base/ca/src/main/java/org/dogtagpki/server/ca/rest/v2/CertServlet.java
• https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/commit/e2de26769761af04b9c56071bd1a1926903c49b6

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