Hardcoded Secret in CMC Authentication Plugin Allows Certificate Issuance Bypass

CVE-2017-7537 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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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