CVE-2022-21672

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Summary

CVECVE-2022-21672
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-01-10 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-01-24 19:40:00 UTC
Descriptionmake-ca is a utility to deliver and manage a complete PKI configuration for workstations and servers. Starting with version 0.9 and prior to version 1.10, make-ca misinterprets Mozilla certdata.txt and treats explicitly untrusted certificates like trusted ones, causing those explicitly untrusted certificates trusted by the system. The explicitly untrusted certificates were used by some CAs already hacked. Hostile attackers may perform a MIM attack exploiting them. Everyone using the affected versions of make-ca should upgrade to make-ca-1.10, and run `make-ca -f -g` as the `root` user to regenerate the trusted store immediately. As a workaround, users may delete the untrusted certificates from /etc/pki/tls and /etc/ssl/certs manually (or by a script), but this is not recommended because the manual changes will be overwritten next time running make-ca to update the trusted anchor.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Linuxfromscratch Make-ca All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
/etc/pki/tls and /etc/ssl/certs include distrusted certificates · Issue #19 · lfs-book/make-ca · GitHub MISC github.com
make-ca: use --filter=ca-anchors for all stores by xry111 · Pull Request #20 · lfs-book/make-ca · GitHub MISC github.com
/etc/pki/tls and /etc/ssl/certs include distrusted certificates · Advisory · lfs-book/make-ca · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
blfs-support - User Support for BLFS - confirm_action MISC lists.linuxfromscratch.org
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