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CVE-2022-21672 Detail

Description

make-ca is a utility to deliver and manage a complete PKI configuration for workstations and servers. Starting with version 0.9 and prior to version 1.10, make-ca misinterprets Mozilla certdata.txt and treats explicitly untrusted certificates like trusted ones, causing those explicitly untrusted certificates trusted by the system. The explicitly untrusted certificates were used by some CAs already hacked. Hostile attackers may perform a MIM attack exploiting them. Everyone using the affected versions of make-ca should upgrade to make-ca-1.10, and run `make-ca -f -g` as the `root` user to regenerate the trusted store immediately. As a workaround, users may delete the untrusted certificates from /etc/pki/tls and /etc/ssl/certs manually (or by a script), but this is not recommended because the manual changes will be overwritten next time running make-ca to update the trusted anchor.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://github.com/lfs-book/make-ca/issues/19 Issue Tracking  Mitigation  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/lfs-book/make-ca/issues/19 Issue Tracking  Mitigation  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/lfs-book/make-ca/pull/20 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/lfs-book/make-ca/pull/20 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/lfs-book/make-ca/security/advisories/GHSA-m5qh-728v-4xrx Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/lfs-book/make-ca/security/advisories/GHSA-m5qh-728v-4xrx Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/blfs-support/2022-01/msg00020.html Mailing List  Mitigation  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/blfs-support/2022-01/msg00020.html Mailing List  Mitigation  Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-Other Other cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-115 Misinterpretation of Input GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2022-21672
NVD Published Date:
01/10/2022
NVD Last Modified:
11/21/2024
Source:
GitHub, Inc.