CVE-2026-17039
The certificate authority (CA) renewal request path does not perform the realm-based authorization check that the enrollment path performs, allowing an authenticated user entitled to one realm to cause a certificate belonging to a different realm to be…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A flaw was found in pki-core. The certificate authority (CA) renewal request path does not perform the realm-based authorization check that the enrollment path performs, allowing an authenticated user entitled to one realm to cause a certificate belonging to a different realm to be renewed without that realm's authorization.
- CVSS 3.1
- 3.1 LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.21% probability · 11th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-863
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20179
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-17039
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2506720
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/blob/master/base/ca/database/ds/acl.ldif
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/blob/master/base/ca/src/main/java/com/netscape/cms/servlet/cert/EnrollmentProcessor.java
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/blob/master/base/ca/src/main/java/com/netscape/cms/servlet/cert/RenewalProcessor.java
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/blob/master/base/ca/src/main/java/org/dogtagpki/server/ca/rest/v2/CertServlet.java
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/commit/e2de26769761af04b9c56071bd1a1926903c49b6
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.