The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1979 advisory.

    The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Core contains fundamental packages required by Red Hat Certificate     System.

    Security Fix(es):

    * pki-core: Mishandled ACL configuration in AAclAuthz.java reverses rules that allow and deny access     (CVE-2018-1080)

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

    This issue was discovered by Fraser Tweedale (Red Hat).

    Bug Fix(es):

    * Previously, when ECC keys were enrolled, Certificate Management over CMS (CMC) authentication failed     with a TokenException: Unable to insert certificate into temporary database error. As a consequence, the     enrollment failed. This update fixes the problem. As a result, the mentioned bug no longer occurs.
    (BZ#1550581)

    * Previously, Certificate System used the same enrollment profiles for issuing RSA and ECC certificates.
    As a consequence, the key usage extension in issued certificates did not meet the Common Criteria     standard. This update adds ECC-specific enrollment profiles where the key usage extension for TLS server     and client certificates are different as described in RFC 6960. Additionally, the update changes existing     profiles to issue only RSA certificates. As a result, the key usage extension in ECC certificates now     meets the Common Criteria standard. (BZ#1554726)

    * The Certificate System server rejects saving invalid access control lists (ACL). As a consequence, when     saving an ACL with an empty expression, the server rejected the update and the pkiconsole utility     displayed an StringIndexOutOfBoundsException error. With this update, the utility rejects empty ACL     expressions. As a result, invalid ACLs cannot be saved and the error is no longer displayed. (BZ#1557883)

    * Previously, due to a bug in the Certificate System installation procedure, installing a Key Recovery     Authority (KRA) with ECC keys failed. To fix the problem, the installation process has been updated to     handle both RSA and ECC subsystems automatically. As a result, installing subsystems with ECC keys no     longer fail. (BZ#1581134)

    * Previously, during verification, Certificate System encoded the ECC public key incorrectly in CMC     Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF) requests. As a consequence, requesting an ECC certificate with     Certificate Management over CMS (CMC) in CRMF failed. The problem has been fixed, and as a result, CMC     CRMF requests using ECC keys work as expected. (BZ#1585945)

    Enhancement(s):

    * The pkispawn man page has been updated and now describes the --skip-configuration and --skip-     installation parameters. (BZ#1551067)

    * With this update, Certificate System adds the Subject Alternative Name (SAN) extension by default to     server certificates and sets it to the Common Name (CN) of the certificate. (BZ#1581135)

    * With this enhancement, users can create Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF) requests without the     key archival option when using the CRMFPopClient utility. This feature increases flexibility because a Key     Recovery Authority (KRA) certificate is no longer required. Previously, if the user did not pass the -b     transport_certificate_file option to CRMFPopClient, the utility automatically used the KRA transport     certificate stored in the transport.txt file. With this update, if -b transport_certificate_file is not     specified, Certificate System creates a request without using key archival. (BZ#1588945)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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RHEL 7 : pki-core (RHSA-2018:1979)

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Version 1.12 Mar 27, 2025, 11:10 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 8.1) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSSv3 score source (changed from "manual" to none) Plugin Feed: 202503271110
Version 1.11 Feb 18, 2025, 11:54 PM Plugin metadata (CVSS 3 Change AC:H --> AC:L where needed) Plugin Feed: 202502182354
Version 1.10 Sep 13, 2024, 10:17 AM Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "False") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" set to "No known exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202409131017
Version 1.9 Apr 25, 2024, 2:46 AM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2018-1080") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404250246