QID 354746

Date Published: 2023-02-28

QID 354746: Amazon Linux Security Advisory for ca-certificates : ALAS-2023-1690

Certifi is a curated collection of root certificates for validating the trustworthiness of ssl certificates while verifying the identity of tls hosts.
Certifi 2022.12.07 removes root certificates from "trustcor" from the root store.
These are in the process of being removed from mozilla's trust store.
Trustcor's root certificates are being removed pursuant to an investigation prompted by media reporting that trustcor's ownership also operated a business that produced spyware.
Conclusions of mozilla's investigation can be found in the linked google group discussion. (
( CVE-2022-23491)



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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a securitybreach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.
    • Solution
    Please refer to Amazon advisory: ALAS-2023-1690 for affected packages and patching details, or update with your package manager.
    Vendor References

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