CVE-2026-17039 PUBLISHED

Pki-core: dogtag-pki: redhat-pki: pki-core: ca renewal request processing omits realm authorization check performed by enrollment path

Assigner: redhat
Reserved: 24.07.2026 Published: 24.07.2026 Updated: 24.07.2026

A flaw was found in pki-core. The certificate authority (CA) renewal request path does not perform the realm-based authorization check that the enrollment path performs, allowing an authenticated user entitled to one realm to cause a certificate belonging to a different realm to be renewed without that realm's authorization.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 3.1

Product Status

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Certificate System 10
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Certificate System 11
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Certificate System 9
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Versions Default: affected

Workarounds

Deployments that do not configure a realm-mapped authorization manager (AuthzRealmDefault with a non-default realm-to-authorization-manager mapping) for multi-tenant or delegated sub-CA use are not exposed to this issue. For deployments that do use realm-based authorization, using a renewal profile that additionally restricts renewal requests to the original requester narrows exposure: the shipped caDirUserRenewal.cfg profile configures authz.acl=user_origreq="auth_token.uid", which independently blocks cross-user renewal by comparing the renewing caller's UID against the UID that submitted the original request. This is a partial mitigation only -- it is realm-blind rather than realm-aware, so a UID collision across two independently-administered realms' user directories would still bypass it -- and it does not apply to caManualRenewal.cfg or other shipped renewal profiles that configure no authz.acl, which remain exploitable as described. No complete mitigation is available; apply the update once released.

Credits

  • Red Hat would like to thank Arpit Jain (Github: arpitjain099) for reporting this issue.

References

Problem Types

  • Incorrect Authorization CWE