What is CVE-2019-10179?

CVE-2019-10179 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dogtagpki, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2020-03-20.

How severe is CVE-2019-10179?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

XSS in Dogtagpki

CVE-2019-10179

A vulnerability was found in all pki-core 10.x.x versions, where the Key Recovery Authority (KRA) Agent Service did not properly sanitize recovery request search page, enabling a Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker could trick an authenticated victim into executing specially crafted Javascript code.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2020-03-20 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (60.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-31.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 61st percentile — 60.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Dogtagpki
[Unknown] Pki-Core/pki-Kra — versions all pki-core 10.x.x versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 7.0, 8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-10179?: CVE-2019-10179 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Dogtagpki, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2020-03-20.
How severe is CVE-2019-10179?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.