CVE-2017-7509

Summary

CVECVE-2017-7509
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-26 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:29:00 UTC
DescriptionAn input validation error was found in Red Hat Certificate System's handling of client provided certificates before 8.1.20-1. If the certreq field is not present in a certificate an assertion error is triggered causing a denial of service.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Redhat Certificate System All All All All
Application Redhat Certificate System All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
1456030 – (CVE-2017-7509) CVE-2017-7509 certificate system 8: Enrolling certificate without certreq field causes CA to crash CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Certificate Server Input Validation Flaw in certreq Field Lets Remote Authenticated Users Cause the Target Service to Crash - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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