CVE-2021-20179: Dogtagpki

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in pki-core. An attacker who has successfully compromised a key could use this flaw to renew the corresponding certificate over and over again, as long as it is not explicitly revoked. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.

Affected products

• Dogtagpki Dogtagpki: before 10.5.0 (fixed in 10.5.0); from 10.5.1, before 10.8.0 (fixed in 10.8.0); from 10.8.1, before 10.9.0 (fixed in 10.9.0); from 10.9.1, before 10.10.0 (fixed in 10.10.0); from 10.10.1, before 10.11.0 (fixed in 10.11.0)
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 32 only; version 33 only; version 34 only
• Red Hat Certificate System: version 10.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2021-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.