The system certificate authority (CA) store in Red Hat products, distributed via ca-certificates RPM packages, included multiple root CA certificates…
The system certificate authority (CA) store in Red Hat products, distributed via ca-certificates RPM packages, included multiple root CA certificates of authorities, which signed intermediate CA certificates with weak private keys issued by the eMudhra certificate authority. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to issue certificates for arbitrary host names signed by the weak intermediate CA certificates, which would be considered trusted by a TLS/SSL client using system CA store and cause such clients to connect to malicious sites. Due to inability to only distrust specific inter
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- Red Hat
- Product
- red hat
- CVSS
- 6.8
- Exposure class
- Identity
Why it ranks 15 (Routine)
- CVSS 6.8 medium
- Exposed product class: identity
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.