Red Hat Certificate System 7.2 uses world-readable permissions for password.conf and unspecified other configuration files, which allows loc
Red Hat Certificate System 7.2 uses world-readable permissions for password.conf and unspecified other configuration files, which allows local users to discover passwords by reading these files.
- Published
- Jan 20, 2009
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 14th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-264
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Action score
8
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Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 8 / 40 · 2.1 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| redhat | certificate system | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:certificate_system |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- redhat certificate system7.2
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | pkisetup | before 0:7.2.0-7 | 0:7.2.0-7 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | rhpki-ca | before 0:7.2.0-6 | 0:7.2.0-6 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | rhpki-common | before 0:7.2.0-16 | 0:7.2.0-16 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | rhpki-kra | before 0:7.2.0-5 | 0:7.2.0-5 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | rhpki-ocsp | before 0:7.2.0-5 | 0:7.2.0-5 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | rhpki-tks | before 0:7.2.0-5 | 0:7.2.0-5 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | rhpki-tps | before 0:7.2.0-8 | 0:7.2.0-8 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.3 | pkisetup | before 0:7.3.0-14.el4 | 0:7.3.0-14.el4 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.3 | rhpki-ca | before 0:7.3.0-17.el4 | 0:7.3.0-17.el4 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.3 | rhpki-common | before 0:7.3.0-40.el4 | 0:7.3.0-40.el4 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.3 | rhpki-kra | before 0:7.3.0-13.el4 | 0:7.3.0-13.el4 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.3 | rhpki-ocsp | before 0:7.3.0-11.el4 | 0:7.3.0-11.el4 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.3 | rhpki-ra | before 0:7.3.0-67.el4 | 0:7.3.0-67.el4 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.3 | rhpki-tks | before 0:7.3.0-12.el4 | 0:7.3.0-12.el4 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.3 | rhpki-tps | before 0:7.3.0-23.el4 | 0:7.3.0-23.el4 |
| Red Hat:certificate_system:7.3 | rhpki-util | before 0:7.3.0-20.el4 | 0:7.3.0-20.el4 |
Same product
redhat: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2013-1886Format string vulnerability in the token processing system (pki-tps) in Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) 8.1 and possibly Dogtag Certificat31Monitor
- CVE-2017-7509An input validation error was found in Red Hat Certificate System's handling of client provided certificates before 8.1.20-1.26Monitor
- CVE-2009-0588agent/request/op.cgi in the Registration Authority (RA) component in Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) 7.3 and Dogtag Certificate System all26Monitor
- CVE-2010-3868Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) 7.3 and 8 and Dogtag Certificate System do not require authentication for requests to decrypt SCEP one-tim23Monitor
- CVE-2012-3367Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) before 8.1.1 and Dogtag Certificate System does not properly check certificate revocation requests made th22Monitor
- CVE-2020-1696A flaw was found in the all pki-core 10.x.x versions, where Token Processing Service (TPS) where it did not properly sanitize Profile IDs, e21Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| red hat:pkisetup | 0:7.2.0-7 · Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:rhpki-ca | 0:7.2.0-6 · Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:rhpki-common | 0:7.2.0-16 · Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:rhpki-kra | 0:7.2.0-5 · Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:rhpki-ocsp | 0:7.2.0-5 · Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:rhpki-ra | 0:7.3.0-67.el4 · Red Hat:certificate_system:7.3 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:rhpki-tks | 0:7.2.0-5 · Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:rhpki-tps | 0:7.2.0-8 · Red Hat:certificate_system:7.2 | Package registry (OSV) |
| red hat:rhpki-util | 0:7.3.0-20.el4 · Red Hat:certificate_system:7.3 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
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Patch and commit links
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Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- P · data can be read
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Confidentiality impact
- P
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-264 · Permissions, Privileges, and Access ControlsCVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
nvd-primary
Attack context
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References
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451998
- secunia.com/advisories/33540
- securitytracker.com/id?1021608
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/33288
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0145
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48021
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0006.html
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0007.html
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.