QID 239366

Date Published: 2021-06-09

QID 239366: Red Hat Update for pki-core:10.6 (RHSA-2021:2235)

The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Core contains fundamental packages required by Red Hat Certificate System.

Security Fix(es): pki-server: Dogtag installer "pkispawn" logs admin credentials into a world-readable log file (CVE-2021-3551) The PKI installer "pkispawn" logs admin credentials into aworld-readable log file. It also looks like the installer is passing thepassword as an insecure command line argument. The credentials are the389-DS LDAP server's Directory Manager credentials. The DirectoryManager is 389-DS' equivalent of unrestricted root account. The userbypasses permission checks and grants full access to data. In an IdM /FreeIPA installation the DM user is able to read and manipulate KerberosKDC master password, Kerberos keytabs, hashed user passwords, and more.Any and all IdM and FreeIPA installations with PKI 10.10 should beconsidered compromised.

Affected Products:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.4 s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

On successful exploitation, it could allow an attacker to execute code.

  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
    • Solution
    Upgrade to the latest packages which contain a patch. Refer to Applying Package Updates to RHEL system for details.

    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2021:2235 to address this issue and obtain more information.

    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 239366

    CVE-2021-3551 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2021:2235 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2235?language=en
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