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High RLSA-2021:2235 1 CVE

Important: pki-core:10.6 security update

Published Jun 3, 2021 · Updated Feb 4, 2026

Summary

The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Core contains fundamental packages required by Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation Certificate System.

Security Fix(es):

* pki-server: Dogtag installer "pkispawn" logs admin credentials into a world-readable log file (CVE-2021-3551)

The PKI installer "pkispawn" logs admin credentials into a
world-readable log file. It also looks like the installer is passing the
password as an insecure command line argument. The credentials are the
389-DS LDAP server's Directory Manager credentials. The Directory
Manager is 389-DS' equivalent of unrestricted root account. The user
bypasses permission checks and grants full access to data. In an IdM /
FreeIPA installation the DM user is able to read and manipulate Kerberos
KDC master password, Kerberos keytabs, hashed user passwords, and more.
Any and all IdM and FreeIPA installations with PKI 10.10 should be
considered compromised.

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 jss 0:4.8.1-2.module+el8.4.0+418+b7ae1d4a
Rocky Linux · 8 ldapjdk 0:4.22.0-1.module+el8.4.0+418+b7ae1d4a
Rocky Linux · 8 pki-core 0:10.10.5-3.module+el8.4.0+554+92b527a1
Rocky Linux · 8 tomcatjss 0:7.6.1-1.module+el8.4.0+418+b7ae1d4a

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1959971