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CVE-2026-104988

An authenticated EST user can exploit this to obtain CA-signed certificates with arbitrary subject names.

HIGH 8.1EPSS 0.20%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.20%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A flaw was found in Dogtag PKI (pki-core). The CMCAuthForEST authentication plugin fails open when an EST fullcmc enrollment request is submitted via BasicAuth without an end-user TLS client certificate. The SSL_CLIENT_CERT session attribute retains the EST subsystem's agent certificate, which causes downstream authorization checks to treat the request as agent-privileged. An authenticated EST user can exploit this to obtain CA-signed certificates with arbitrary subject names.

CVSS 3.1: 8.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS: 0.20% probability · 10th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-290
Source: secalert@redhat.com

EPSS trend

EPSS moved from 0.2% on 3 October 2026 to 0.2% on 26 October 2026.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.