CVE-2017-7537: Dogtagpki

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was found that a mock CMC authentication plugin with a hardcoded secret was accidentally enabled by default in the pki-core package before 10.6.4. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to bypass the regular authentication process and trick the CA server into issuing certificates.

Affected products

• Dogtagpki Dogtagpki: before 10.6.4 (fixed in 10.6.4)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2018-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.