CVE-2022-21672

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21672
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-21672.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-21672
Aliases
  • GHSA-m5qh-728v-4xrx
Published
2022-01-10T21:00:13Z
Modified
2025-11-04T19:54:06.354128Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
/etc/pki/tls and /etc/ssl/certs include distrusted certificates in make-ca
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-115"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/lfs-book/make-ca

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/lfs-book/make-ca
Events

Affected versions

v0.*

v0.9

v1.*

v1.0
v1.1
v1.2
v1.3
v1.4
v1.5
v1.6
v1.7
v1.8
v1.8.1
v1.9