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CVE-2021-20179
A flaw was found in pki-core. An attacker who has successfully compromised a key could use this flaw to renew the corresponding…
High8.1EPSS 1.2%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Weakness
Affected products
pki-core
- affected pki-core 10.5, pki-core 10.8, pki-core 10.9, pki-core 10.10, pki-core 10.11
References (9)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1914379 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3478 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3477 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3476 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3475 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/pull/3474 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2021-c0d6637ca5 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2021-344dd24c84 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2021-6c412a4601 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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