CVE-2021-3551

CWE-312 — Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Info6 documents6 sources
Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.61%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
12
Dogtagpki DogtagpkiFedoraproject FedoraOracle Linux+9 more
Timeline
PublishedFeb 16
Latest updateFeb 17

Description

A flaw was found in the PKI-server, where the spkispawn command, when run in debug mode, stores admin credentials in the installation log file. This flaw allows a local attacker to retrieve the file to obtain the admin password and gain admin privileges to the Dogtag CA manager. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDdogtagpki/dogtagpki10.10.0 — 10.10.6
▶CVEListV5pki-serverpki-core 10.10.6

Also affects: Fedora 33, 34, Enterprise Linux 8.0, 8.4

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-9ggg-37fj-xc96: A flaw was found in the PKI-server, where the spkispawn command, when run in debug mode, stores admin credentials in the installation log file↗2022-02-17
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OSV
CVE-2021-3551: A flaw was found in the PKI-server, where the spkispawn command, when run in debug mode, stores admin credentials in the installation log file↗2022-02-16
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CVEList
CVE-2021-3551: A flaw was found in the PKI-server, where the spkispawn command, when run in debug mode, stores admin credentials in the installation log file↗2022-02-16
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
pki-server: Dogtag installer "pkispawn" logs admin credentials into a world-readable log file↗2021-06-03
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Debian
CVE-2021-3551: dogtag-pki - A flaw was found in the PKI-server, where the spkispawn command, when run in deb...↗2021
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