CVE-2021-3908

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-3908
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-11-11 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-08-09 13:42:00 UTC
DescriptionOctoRPKI does not limit the depth of a certificate chain, allowing for a CA to create children in an ad-hoc fashion, thereby making tree traversal never end.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cloudflare Octorpki All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Infinite certificate chain depth results in OctoRPKI running forever · Advisory · cloudflare/cfrpki · GitHub MISC github.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5041-1 cfrpki DEBIAN www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Koen van Hove

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178993 Debian Security Update for cfrpki (DSA 5041-1)
  • 184762 Debian Security Update for cfrpki (CVE-2021-3908)
  • 980107 Go (go) Security Update for github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki/cmd/octorpki (GHSA-g5gj-9ggf-9vmq)
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