rhsa-2022:8915
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2022-12-12 21:25
Modified
2025-08-03 04:32
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Certificate System 9.7 security update

Notes

Topic
An update is now available for Red Hat Certificate System 9.7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Details
The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Core contains fundamental packages required by Red Hat Certificate System. Security Fix(es): * pki-core: access to external entities when parsing XML can lead to XXE (CVE-2022-2414) 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. Bug Fix(es): * Update RHCS version of CA, KRA, OCSP, and TKS so that it can be identified using a browser [RHCS 9.7.z BU 19] (BZ#2136537)
Terms of Use
This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.


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