ubuntu · CVE-2017-7537

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Priority: medium Published: 2018-07-26 13:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:37:53 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-7537 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dogtag-pki), 19 status rows across 19 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, trusty, upstream, xenial, zesty): not-affected 11, DNE 4, ignored 2, released 2.

Description:

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 and trick the CA server into issuing certificates.

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