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Ubuntu: USN-8158-1 (CVE-2021-20179): Dogtag PKI vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 15, 2021
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 10, 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.

Solutions

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