What is CVE-2017-7537?

CVE-2017-7537 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dogtag Pki Pki-core, classified under CWE-592. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-07-26.

How severe is CVE-2017-7537?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Dogtag Pki Pki-core

CVE-2017-7537

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…

EPSS: 0.001 (32.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Dogtag Pki Pki-core — versions 10.6.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-592

References

github.com/dogtagpki/pki/commit/876d13c6d20e7e1235b9 (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
RHSA-2017:2335 (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-7537?: CVE-2017-7537 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dogtag Pki Pki-core, classified under CWE-592. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-07-26.
How severe is CVE-2017-7537?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.