CVE-2021-20179

HighCVSS 8.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 8.1/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-863

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	pki-core	pki-core 10.5, pki-core 10.8, pki-core 10.9, pki-core 10.10, pki-core 10.11

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914379Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3474Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3475Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3476Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3477Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3478Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DDOLFOLEIV7I4EUC3SCZBXL6E2ER7ZEN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HRE44N6P24AEDKRMWK7RPRLMCUUBRJII/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R3I7BRAHLE2WWSY76W3CKFCF5WSSAE24/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914379Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3474Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3475Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3476Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3477Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3478Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DDOLFOLEIV7I4EUC3SCZBXL6E2ER7ZEN/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HRE44N6P24AEDKRMWK7RPRLMCUUBRJII/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R3I7BRAHLE2WWSY76W3CKFCF5WSSAE24/

Timeline

Published: Mar 15, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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