CVE-2017-7537

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.13%
Published: 7/26/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7537

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 packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References (1)