CVE-2020-15720
mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.010 · 62 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
In Dogtag PKI through 10.8.3, the pki.client.PKIConnection class did not enable python-requests certificate validation. Since the verify parameter was hard-coded in all request functions, it was not possible to override the setting. As a result, tools making use of this class, such as the pki-server command, may have been vulnerable to Person-in-the-Middle attacks in certain non-localhost use cases. This is fixed in 10.9.0-b1.
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references (13)
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- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1855273cnnvd
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/commit/50c23ec146ee9abf28c9de87a5f7787d495f0b72cnnvd
- https://github.com/dogtagpki/pki/compare/v10.9.0-a2...v10.9.0-b1cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15720cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159852/Red-Hat-Security-Advisory-2020-4847-01.htmlcnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Dogtag-PKI-Man-in-the-Middle-33796cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2020.3875/cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1855273enisa_euvd
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